Small Plane Crashes into Neighborhood, Igniting Fires in 15 Homes and Leaving Jet Fuel 'All Over'

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A small private plane has crashed in a San Diego neighborhood, sparking fires in at least 15 homes, authorities said. In an email to PEOPLE, the Federal Aviation Administration said, based on preliminary information, a Cessna 550 crashed near San Diego’s Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport at approximately 3:45 a.m., local time on Thursday, May 22.

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00:00This morning at approximately 3.45, 3.47, we have reports of a plane down in the Murphy Canyon

00:13neighborhood. San Diego Fire quickly coordinated a response for a plane down incident and our units

00:20responded and started to investigate. Upon arrival, they found multiple vehicles on fire

00:27and multiple homes on fire. We're working with the FAA right now to find out how many actual people

00:33were registered on that plane. We'll have more information for that here shortly when we can,

00:38when we get those numbers, but everything that's a fatality right now appears to be from the plane

00:42itself. This is one of the largest military housing units in the world. Certainly, we have a lot of

00:49military families that are impacted. Again, I want to send our condolences and thoughts and prayers to

00:55all of those impacted by this. Our foremost concern right now is to make sure that we have the safety

01:01of our families who reside in the neighborhood behind us.

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