Small plane carrying at least 2 people crashes into townhomes near Portland, engulfs home in flames

Associated Press

PORTLAND (AP) — A mini level collapsed into a postulation of townhouses Saturday greeting successful a vicinity eastbound of Portland, causing a monolithic fire.

Gresham Fire Chief Scott Lewis said astatine slightest 2 group were aboard nan craft and 1 personification wrong nan townhomes was unaccounted for, KPTV-TV successful Portland reported. No deaths person been confirmed.

Photos and videos published by nan news position show astatine slightest 1 of nan townhouses engulfed successful flames and a heavy plume of achromatic fume successful nan air.

The Federal Aviation Administration identified nan craft arsenic a twin-engine Cessna 421C, which it says went down astir 10:30 a.m. adjacent Troutdale Airport, astir a 30-minute thrust eastbound of Portland.

As nan level went down, it knocked complete a rod and powerfulness lines, causing a abstracted but little occurrence successful a adjacent field, according to nan Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. The level was divided into aggregate parts arsenic it collapsed successful nan residential area successful nan metropolis of Fairview.

Troutdale Airport is described connected nan Port of Portland’s website arsenic a “flight training and recreational airport.”

A mini level collapsed successful a Fairview vicinity successful nan Portland suburbs connected Saturday morning. The clang damaged respective townhomes and near 5 families without housing. | KPTV via CNN