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A small plane collapsed on Saturday in two houses in Simi Valley, California, where the pilot was killed, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and the Fire brigade of Ventura County.
Residents were in the two -storey, single -family homes and were evacuated without any injuries, the Fire brigade said. The houses have sustained structural damage and fire damage.
The identity of the pilot was not released.
Video Posted on Social Media The fire brigade showed firefighters on a roof that tended to a smoking area of one of the houses.
The plane, a single engine with a fixed wing of the plane of the task, had left General William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster and was on his way to Camarillo Airport near the city of Thousand Oaks before it crashed around 2:10 pm, the FAA said.
Simi Valley is a city of 125,000 people about 40 miles northwest of the center of Los Angeles.
Photos from the scene showed smoke shortly after the crash and later a gaping hole in the roof of a structure.
“The plane flew very low and tried to get a few times height, but looked like it wasn’t possible,” an X user who posted a photo after the crash, said on social media.
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