Two people were killed and 18 injured when a small plane crashed thro🌞ugh the rooftop of a commercial building in Southern Ca🐠lifornia on Thursday, police said.
Police got a report🌊 at 2.09 pm on Thursda🥂y about the crash in the Orange County city of Fullerton, said Kristy Wells, a Fullerton police spokesperson.
Firefighters and police arrived on scene and battled a blaze that broke ﷽out, and evacuated surrounding businesses, Wells said.
The fire damaged the warehouse, which appeared to contain sewing machines and teꦡxtile stock. The building was occupied by Michael Nicholas Designs, a furniture upholstery manufacturer, according to a sign on a door.
Ten people were taken to the hospital, while eight were treated and released at the scene, police said. There were two confirmed deat🐟hs, according to Wel🥀ls.
It was not immediately known what type of plane it was or whether those injured were in theꦬ aircraft or on the ground, Wells said.
The flight💎-tracking website FlightAware shows a four-seat, single-engine aircraft crashed about a minute after tak༒eoff.
Security camera footage from Rucci Forge, a wheel manufacturer across the street, shows a fiery explosion and a large plume of black smoke aꦓs the plane ap💧peared to dive into the building tilted on its side.
The plane crashe♚d near the Fullerton Municipal Airport, a general aviation airport in Orange County that is about 10 km from Disneyland. It has one runway and one heliport. Metrolink, a regional train line, is nearby, and flanks a residential neighbourhood and commercial warehouse buildings.
Another four-seat plane crashed into a tree a half-mile from the airport last November while making an emergency landing right after it had taken off, the Orange County Rꦅegister reported. Both people on board suffered moderate in♎juries.
Fullerton is a city of about 140,000 people some 40 km southeast of Los Angeles.&nbsꦦp;
