Two people are dead after a small plane crashed at Los Angeles’s Van Nuys Airport on Wednesday morning.
Witnesses described the craft, a CSA SportCruiser, heading nose-down towards the runway.
“They did very a very high impact, what was described as nose-first into the ground,” Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Erik Scott told ABC 7. “Tragically that likely quickly caused the death of both of the occupants.”
The fire official said it was the third crash this year the airport, and the first fatal one. There hasn’t been a deadly crash at Van Nuys in the last two decades, he said.
Firefighters arrived on the scene at 10.37am and sprayed the plane with fire-extinguishing foam, according to The Los Angeles Times.
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate what happened along with the Federal Aviation Administration, and a preliminary report is expected to be released on Thursday, according to the papers.
The crash caused the closure of one of the main runways at the airport, officials said.
The names of those involved in the wreck were not immediately made public.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated with new information.