Plane crashes near San Diego area high school as witnesses report large plumes of smoke
BREAKING NEWS: Plane crashes into UPS truck near San Diego-area high school, killing driver and one other person and destroying two nearby homes
Reports indicate twin-engine aircraft slammed into residential area located 20 miles northeast of San DiegoPlane slammed into a UPS truck, killing the driver, and then hit two nearby houses, CBS 8 TV reported At least one other person was killed and two others were rushed to a hospital after crash in Santee, California Emergency crews received reports of a crash in the San Diego suburb at around 12:30pm local time Aircraft crashed ‘2 or 3 blocks away’ from Santana High School, according to the school’s Twitter accountAt least two buildings were destroyed by fire and at least one was badly damaged; a UPS truck was engulfed by flames
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A twin-engine aircraft crashed into a UPS truck and two nearby homes in a residential area near the grounds of a San Diego-area high school on Monday afternoon, killing at least two people including the driver, injuring two others and setting two homes ablaze.
At least two people were rushed to hospital with injuries, according to Fox 5 San Diego. The extent of their injuries is not clear, though local reports indicate they suffered burns. The deaths of the UPS driver and one other person were first reported by CBS 8 TV.
It wasn’t immediately known whether the other victims were on the ground or on board the twin-engine Cessna that went down around midday in suburban Santee, about 20 miles northeast of downtown San Diego,
Authorities began receiving reports of a crash at 12:30pm. The plane is believed to have went down at 12:15pm.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it did not know how many people were on board the aircraft.
Santee Fire Chief John Garlow said one home was ‘well involved’ by flames, and a second home also caught fire.
‘Not to be too graphic but it´s a pretty brutal scene,’ Deputy Fire Chief Justin Matsushita said.
Firefighters respond to the scene of a plane crash in a residential neighborhood in Santee, a suburb some 20 miles northeast of San Diego, California
Two homes were destroyed and a third suffered damage after a twin-engine Cessna crashed into the area, according to authorities
The plane crashed close to Santana High School a short distance away from Gillespie Field Airport
A UPS vehicle also burned, he said. Firefighters managed to put out the blaze before any other properties were damaged.
The plane was a twin-engine Cessna C340, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. It wasn’t immediately known where the flight originated or was headed, or how many people were on board.
The crash happened about three blocks from Santana High School in the city of about 50,000 residents. The school said on Twitter that ‘all students are secure.’
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate.
The injured were evacuated from the scene by Santee Fire Department near Jeremy and Greencastle Street in Santee.
Fire and safety crews work the scene of a plane crash in Santee, California. At least two people were killed and two others were injured when the small plane crashed into a suburban Southern California neighborhood, setting two homes ablaze
Smoke billows after a plane crash in Santee, California on Monday lunchtime
Thick black smoke could be seen billowing into the sky in the area close to where the aircraft came down
Local residents were transfixed by the sight of smoke billowing into the air
TV news footage about an hour after the crash showed the fire extinguished and two houses and the truck still smoldering and gutted by flames.
Jim Slaff told NBC 7 in San Diego that neighbors pulled his mother out of a window of her burning home and rescued his stepfather from the backyard. It appears their dog died.
Slaff said neighbors told him the couple was ‘obviously shaken up but doing OK’ and taken to UC San Diego Medical Center. ‘It´s a war zone. It´s not even a house,’ Slaff said after arriving at the scene.
Witnesses posted images on social media showing plumes of smoke rising above Santana High School in Santee.
The San Diego Sheriff’s Department said that the crash took place on the 9900 block of North Magnolia Avenue. The school’s address is 9915 North Magnolia Avenue.
We can confirm that a small plane smashed into a UPS truck, killing the driver, then crashed into two homes in Santee. No word on the condition of anyone in the homes or who was on the plane. @CBS8 https://t.co/UGUxEGWV9A
— Heather Myers (@HeatherMyersTV) October 11, 2021
Firefighters in the San Diego suburb of Santee, California are at the scene of a small plane crash near a high school on Monday
At least two people were rushed to hospital with injuries. The injured were evacuated from the scene by Santee Fire Department personnel near Jeremy and Greencastle Street in Santee
Witnesses posted images on social media showing plumes of smoke rising above Santana High School in Santee
The San Diego Sheriff’s Department said that the crash took place on the 9900 block of North Magnolia Avenue. The school’s address is 9915 North Magnolia Avenue
The school, which is part of Grossmont Union High School District, is just north of the airport at Gillespie Field.
Its official Twitter account reported that its students were ‘secure’ following the crash.
The sheriff’s department is asking locals to avoid the area so that first responders can secure the scene.
Firefighters managed to douse the blaze before it could cause damage to other homes in the surrounding area
The image above is a file photo of Santana High School, just a few blocks from where the plane crashed on Monday afternoon
The school, which is part of Grossmont Union High School District, also is just north of the airport at Gillespie Field. Its official Twitter account reported that its students were ‘secure’ following the crash, which took place about ‘2 or 3 blocks away.’
It is also unclear if those injured were in the plane, a twin-engine Cessna C340, or on the ground at the time of the crash. The above image is a file photo of a Cessna 340
Just before 1pm local time, school officials tweeted: ‘We have been given the OK by @SDSOSantee to come out of ‘Secure Campus.’
‘We are now out of a ‘Secure Campus’… Students are being released for lunch or dismissal, if they do not have any other classes today.’
