There is a town in California called Watsonville. Two people were killed when two small planes collided in Northern California while trying to land.
The planes crashed at the airport around 3 pm, according to the city ofWatsonville. There is no control tower at the city-owned airport.
According to the FAA, there were two people on the twin-engine Cessna and one person on the single-engine Cessna. Multiple deaths were reported but it was not known if anyone survived.
The FAA said that the pilots were on their way to the airport. The crash is being investigated by the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board.
The people on the ground were not hurt. More than 300 aircraft call the airport home on its website. It handles tens of thousands of operations a year and is used for many businesses.
About 100 miles south of San Francisco is the town ofWatsonville.
There were photos and videos posted on social media showing the crash of a small plane. A picture shows smoke in the sky near the airport.
Firefighters are on the scene of a small building that has been damaged at the airport.
A witness told the Santa Cruz Sentinel that the planes were in the air for over an hour.
Franky said he saw the twin-engine plane bank hard to the right and hit the wing of the smaller plane, which was not far from homes.
He saw flames at the other side of the airport after the twin- engine aircraft kept flying.
The manager of the airport was not available for an interview after the crash. 40% of all general aviation activities in the Monterey Bay area are done at the airport.
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office was referred to by the police department.
In California on Thursday, two other pilots were hurt in crashes.
A 65-year-old San Diego man received injuries that were major but not life threatening when his single-engine plane crashed on a street near a busy freeway overpass.
The plane hit an SUV but no one on the ground was hurt.
The pilot of an aircraft was critically injured when it crashed upside down on a building at the Camarillo Airport in Ventura County.
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