San Diego plane crash sparks fires, creates ‘giant debris field’

SAN DIEGO — A small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood on Thursday morning, hitting several homes and sparked multiple fires.

A neighborhood in the Murphy Canyon area was evacuated as firefighters battled the flames and tended to causalities. An unknown number of people were on the plane.

The crash left a “gigantic debris field,” San Diego Fire-Rescue Department Assistant Chief Dan Eddy told ABC 10 in San Diego.

The FAA said the Cessna 550 was en route to Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport when crash happened around 3:45 a.m.

As of 6 a.m., no victims had been transported from the scene, according to CBS8.