A jet crash in San Diego occurred Thursday morning. A Cessna 550 crashed near the Tierrasanta neighborhood and destroyed several homes. It was not immediately clear how many people had been aboard the plane.
From reporting by The New York Times:
A small jet crashed into a residential San Diego neighborhood early Thursday morning, killing the people on board and destroying several homes, officials said.
Dan Eddy, San Diego’s assistant fire chief, told a news conference that there had been multiple fatalities, all among people on the plane. The number of people aboard was not immediately known.
The aircraft, a Cessna 550, which Mr. Eddy said carries up to 10 people, crashed in Murphy Canyon near the Tierrasanta neighborhood just before 4 a.m. Multiple homes caught on fire and were destroyed, the San Diego Police Department said.
This is a developing story and will be updated as new information is reported.
