Two people were killed and at least 18 were injured after a small plane crashed in Orange County Thursday afternoon.
The single-engine van RV-10 crashed around 2:15 p.m. PST, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. It happened in the 2300 block of Raymer Avenue near the Fullerton Airport.
The Fullerton Police Department said injuries varied, and paramedics hospitalized 10 people while crews treated and released eight people at the scene. according to a post on X.
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The FAA said it will investigate along with the National Transportation Safety Board, the nation’s watchdog for transportation agencies.
The place where the firemen intervened was a large warehouse. Aerial footage from around 2.40pm showed them collapsing a blackened area of the roof where smoke was billowing from an open hole.
Authorities have not released how the accident occurred. Witnesses recalled hearing a “loud noise” before running out of the building. Witness Javier Ruiz recalled seeing someone with what appeared to be burns crossing his body and clothes.
“They burned his shirt, his shoes, his face,” Ruiz said. “It looked like something out of a movie.”
Aerial footage showed the small plane resting inside the building.
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In a post on X at 2:39 p.m., police said there were evacuations in the area.
“Airplane crash in the 2300 block of Raymer Ave,” the message states. “Evacuations are underway in the 2300 block of Raymer. Avoid the area. PD PIO en route.”
Rep. Lou Correa, who represents the Orange County congressional district where the crash occurred, wrote in an op-ed in X that workers at a local furniture manufacturing company were injured when a plane crashed crashed into the building.
“A small plane crashed into a furniture manufacturing building in Fullerton, in our district. At least a dozen workers were injured. The condition of the passengers is unknown,” he wrote in the publication posted at 3:23 p.m
This is the second known plane crash at the airport in the last two months. On Nov. 25, another small plane crashed into a tree in the 2400 block of Artesia Avenue, about a block from the most recent fatal accident.
No one was seriously injured in the November incident, according to Fullerton police.
Check back for updates to this developing story.