Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015 | 10:25 a.m.
SANTEE, Calif. — Authorities say one person was killed and another was critically injured when a small plane crashed in a Southern California neighborhood and ended up in the driveway of a home.
Santee Fire Chief Richard Mattick says both victims were aboard the single-engine plane that went down around 9:20 a.m. Thursday. Nobody on the ground was hurt.
San Diego County sheriff's Lt. Jim Bolwerk says the pilot was breathing when he was extricated from the wreckage and rushed to a hospital. The other person died at the crash site in the small city of Santee, about 15 miles northeast of downtown San Diego.
A fire in the wreckage was quickly extinguished.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the Piper Cherokee crashed about a mile from Gillespie Field airport.
