China News Agency, San Francisco, October 17. According to US media reports on the 17th, a small plane crashed into a house in the southeastern Florida state of the United States that day, killing all two people on board.
CBS reported that a single-engine Aventura II small plane crashed into a house in Miramar, Florida at around 11:45 on the 17th.
Footage from the scene showed that the plane involved was nose down and caught between the fence and the house.
There were two people on the plane at the time of the incident, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
The Miramar Fire Department confirmed that two people on board were killed, local media WSVN reported.
Local media WPLG reported that neither a woman nor her two-year-old child was injured in the crashed home.
After the incident, firefighters tried to clean up the fuel leaking from the plane, and residents of six residences were evacuated.
Wires tangled around the plane made rescue efforts more difficult, the report said.
Florida Power and Light said it cut power to 35 customers as a precaution.
The plane that crashed that day was registered in the name of a man in Virginia.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the plane took off from North Perry Airport near its origin on the 17th.
Airport staff said a mechanic had been working on the plane that day.
The National Transportation Safety Board will lead the investigation into the crash, the report said.
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