Dense fog had rolled into the area around the time the plane was approaching the airport. Visibility was at half a mile at 3:55 a.m. and had dropped to a quarter of a mile just after 4 a.m. in the area around Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, which is just a few miles north of the crash site, according to the National Weather Service.

A small plane crashed in dense fog in a Tierrasanta neighborhood early Thursday morning, killing at least two people on the plane and burning several cars and homes in a neighborhood of military families.

Local and state agencies converged at Union Point Park in New Bern for a large-scale emergency response exercise simulating a plane crash in th

Numerous personnel from various agencies trained along the Neuse River in New Bern with the goal of learning how to save lives during a mass casualty simulation.

Light aircraft carrying two people plunges into sea near Bat Yam, pilot escapes with minor injuries, 15-year-old unconscious and in critical condition.

Pilot Michael McDonald said he snapped selfies and told “crappy dad jokes” to keep his passenger’s spirits up as they waited to be rescued.

Thirty-three of those flights went smoothly. About three hours into the 34th, things went south. MacDonald, who is now safe at home in Burnaby, B.C., is recounting the seconds, minutes and hours after he realized the engine in his small aircraft had quit, and how far he and his passenger were from land.

A small plane crashed into the Potomac River on Saturday, prompting a heavy presence from responders as they worked to rescue the pilot from the water, state police said.