Two people were killed when a small plane crashed at a San Diego airport Monday, officials said.
The crash occurred at the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in Kearny Mesa after police received a report of the wreck around 5:21 p.m., according to the San Diego Police Department.
“Approximately 30 SDFD personnel are on scene of a small plane on fire on the runway at the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport. The airport will be temporarily closed during emergency operations,” the San Diego Fire-Rescue posted on X.
The San Diego Police Department said that the circumstances surrounding the crash were unclear.
Witnesses reported seeing the aircraft on fire while working nearby, according to Fox 5 San Diego.
The tragic incident comes just two days after another plane crash in Fresno claimed the lives of all four of its occupants.
Flight instructor Danna Eady, 41, her husband Craig, 44, and their two sons, Pavel, 10, and Remus, 13, perished after the fiery wreck near the Sierra Sky Park Airport on Saturday.
Firefighters, cops and sheriff’s deputies arrived to find plane wreckage on a bluff near the river as flames tore across a nearby hillside. The aircraft was a fixed-wing, single-engine plane.
This a developing story. Check back for updates.
