Plane Crash San Diego
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Back at the Navy Exchange, Liberty Military Housing workers walked through the parking lot, passing out food and donuts to evacuated families. The agency, which manages the Murphy Canyon properties, was working to help more than three dozen families find temporary housing.
A small plane crashed into a San Diego military housing neighborhood, officials confirmed. San Diego Fire-Rescue Department Assistant Chief Dan Eddy said that the plane struck about 15 homes, causing multiple homes and cars to catch fire.
San Diego’s Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport experienced a power surge on Thursday that knocked out the weather alert system and the tarmac’s runway lights before the Cessna 550 Citation’s failed landing killed six on Thursday, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
According to audio of the conversation posted by LiveATC.net, the pilot acknowledged that the weather conditions for landing at the small airport were not ideal. Also, the fog was so thick in the morning that “you could barely see in front of you.