A Cessna 550 plane crashed into a San Diego defense town on Thursday morning, killing two people and injuring eight people.
A Cessna 550 plane crashed into the Murphy Canyon area on Thursday at around 3:45 a.m., according to Fox News. The article noted that preliminary reports claimed the Cessna 550 had hit a mast, which caused the plane to lose a wing and crash into a home.
According to local officials, the aircraft crash caused significant house and auto burns in the military area, resulting in harm to 15 homes and forcing around 100 people to be displaced in what Naval Base San Diego Capt. One of the largest defense cover areas in the world, according to Bob Healy
The aftereffects of the fires that were ignited following Thursday’s plane collision is depicted in a video shared by Collin Rugg, co-owner of Trending Politics.
Assistant Chief Dan Eddy of the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department confirmed that the crash on Thursday left several people dead, telling reporters,” We do believe we have multiple fatalities, but we’re going to have to go through and take our time and ensure that’s exactly what we have.”
According to Fox News, officials have not yet determined how many people were aboard the Cessna 550 airplane at the time of the collision, despite the fact that it was able to move eight to ten people at once. The Cessna 550 plane crashed, according to Rugg, while it was traveling between Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in San Diego and Wichita, Kansas.
According to Fox News, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are looking into Thursday’s San Diego airport fall.
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Eddy claimed at a press event on Thursday that “jet energy was everywhere.” The assistant commander of the fire department confirmed that the fall and fires left a “monstrous debris field” in the neighborhood and explained that the airplane crash caused a “direct hit to several homes.”
When the plane [hit the street], as the plane energy went down, it took out every one vehicle, Eddie said to investigators. On both sides of the street, every vehicle was burning.
Photos shared on X, originally Online, show firefighters battling the fires brought on by the plane crash as well as the destruction the military community has suffered.
