Pilot dies in the crash of the one -engine aircraft in the Simi Valley district

The pilot and sole resident of a small one -engine plane died when the plane landed in the backyard of a house in California on Saturday, the authorities said.

NBC Los Angeles Aerial photographs of the fall site in the Simi -Valley, about 42 miles northwestern downtown Los Angeles, showed a body on site, although its connection to the incident was not confirmed.

The police of Simi Valley said in a statement that the plane crashed shortly before 2 p.m. and landed in a residential building without injuries being reported on the ground.

Ventura County's fire brigade said the plane hit two houses, the fire loosened, but the residents in every evacuated and intact fires were wiped out and not described in more detail that were due.

The Federal Aviation Administration said that the pilot was the only person on board the aircraft that was a Van-RV-10, a single-engine single-engine that is to be sent as kit and compiled by the customer.

The plane started from the small airport in the city of Lancaster, a high desert community in the Los Angeles district, on the way to Camarillo Airport, about 20 miles west of the Simi Valley, the FAA announced in a statement. Both are non -commercial airports.

The crash site is located in a quarter of Hillside with two-story houses, Wood Ranch, where the middle list is around $ 900,000. The video showed how the residents and first aiders gathered after the crash near a slope. Separate pictures showed how smoke comes from the roof of a house.

The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash, said the FAA.