A small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood early Thursday, killing multiple people believed to be passengers and destroying nearly a dozen homes and several more vehicles.

Multiple fatalities have been confirmed after a small plane crashed into the San Diego military housing neighborhood of Tierrasanta early Thursday morning. At a news conference, San Diego Assistant Fire Chief Dan Eddy said the fatalities appear to be from people onboard the plane,

In the stillness of night, a quiet, tree-lined street in a San Diego neighborhood was plunged into chaos when a plane clipped a power line and crashed – turning cars into fireballs and sending residents fleeing in a haze of smoke and confusion.