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Two people and dog dead after a small plane crashed into the Los Angeles neighborhood in the region California

A small plane fell into a quarter in Simi Valley on Saturday afternoon and killed two people and a dog on board the aircraft and damaged two houses, the authorities said.

Firefighters reacted and the police pushed off the street and warned people to keep away from the area. Rauch could be seen from the roof of a house in the Wood Ranch section of the community, which is almost 80 km northwest of Los Angeles.

Wracks could be seen between the two houses. Ventura County's fire brigade confirmed that the residents were inside at the time, but said that they were evacuated without reported injuries. Both houses suffered structural damage and were affected by the fire, the authorities said.

About 40 firefighters were on site. With the flames they started working on the salvage.

Officials initially reported death. Later on Saturday, the police said by Simi Valley, the pilot, a passenger and a dog on the plane.

Until Sunday, the authorities had not published any information about the occupants of the RV-10 of the one-engine Van, a popular home aircraft sold in KIT form. You also didn't say what could have caused the crash.

The plane fell into the back yard and Arman Hovakemians' house's dining room. Hovakemian told Los Angeles Times that he did gardening when he noticed the plane upstairs and circled in the vicinity of the hill.

He ran in to get his wife Armheh and her Pommerian dog Koko and they fled from the property. A loud bang followed and the fuselage landed where it was just a few moments before, he said.

“I'm deaf. It is not yet installed,” said Hovakemian on Saturday, when dozens of firefighters and police officers surrounded his home. “We are lucky that we could get out.”

The aircraft can be heard in security videos taken by a neighbor who was viewed by the Times, which circles the neighborhood for almost three minutes and flies to points near houses. In another video, the plane can shoot directly into the clouds and then fall again.

In January, the RV-10 of another van fell into a warehouse in Fullerton, which is southeast of Los Angeles, while trying to make an emergency landing, kill the pilot and his daughter of teenage and to injure 19 people in the building. A preliminary report by the NTSB states that the plane had a door -Ajar during the flight.

It will probably take weeks for the NTSB to publish preliminary findings for the crash of Simi Valley. A final report comes months later.

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