2 killed in small plane crash near Los Angeles

A small plane crashed into a two-story townhouse complex building in Hawthorne today, killing the two people aboard the aircraft.

A dispatcher says two people in the plane were killed. No other injuries were reported.

The US Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the cause of the crash.

Two units in the townhouse were impacted and all the occupants who lived there were not home at the time of the crash, according to fire officials.

The identities of the two people killed were not immediately released.

The plane went down around 5:12 p.m.in the 4600 block of W. Broadway, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, KTLA reported.

Neighbor Antwahn Nance told KNBC-TV he could hear the plane’s engine failing and hurried over to the town house when he heard the crash.

‘Everybody was outside their apartments and tried to offer assistance, but there was nothing anybody could do.

In March, Erin Storm, a former “The Bachelor” contestant, was killed in an ultralight plane crash about a quarter-mile off the west end of the airport.

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