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Six people killed in small plane crash off San Diego

 
Six people were killed when a small plane crashed into the ocean off San Diego on Sunday afternoon. 
 
The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday said the pilot and five passengers were killed when the plane crashed into the water under unknown circumstances.
 
The twin-engine Cessna 414 crashed around 12:30, not long after it took off, bound for Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
Searchers later found a debris field about 8 kilometres off the coast of Point Loma, a San Diego neighbourhood that juts into the Pacific. 
 
The water in the area is about 61 metres deep. 
 
A man who was out surfing when the plane crashed said he saw the plane come down at an angle, then climb back into the clouds before diving again and crashing into the water. 
 
The crash comes less than three weeks after a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighbourhood in foggy weather and killed six people.
 


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