The small plane that crashed into a neighborhood in San Diego, California, Thursday, killing at least two people, appears to have begun its doomed journey in New Jersey, officials and flight tracking data say.

A small plane crashed into a neighborhood in Simi Valley on May 3 killing both people and a dog aboard the aircraft and igniting two homes, but no one was reported hurt on the ground despite residents being inside the residences at the time. The community is located nearly 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles.

Multiple people have been killed in San Diego after a small plane crashed into more than a dozen houses in foggy conditions as residents slept early Thursday.

A pilot died Friday afternoon in a small plane crash in Hunterdon County, investigators said. The plane crashed in Alexandria Township around 4:40 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. The aircraft was identified by the agency as a a Chinook Plus 2, an ultralight plane typically assembled from a kit by their pilots.

Authorities were looking into whether a private jet clipped a power line before it crashed in San Diego. The crash early Thursday morning killed multiple people on board, damaging homes and

The airport in Teterboro, New Jersey, is about six miles from Manhattan and is frequently used by private and corporate jets.

The crash occurred sometime before 3:45 a.m. Thursday at the intersection of Sample and Salmon streets in the Murphy Canyon neighborhood, near Tierrasanta. The music agency Sound Talent Group said Thursday that three of its employees died on the private plane that crashed into a San Diego neighborhood.

SAN DIEGO — Multiple people on board a private plane that took off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey crashed into a San Diego military housing neighborhood during foggy weather early Thursday are dead but no one on the ground was injured, authorities said.

A private jet carrying a music talent agent and five others hit a power line in foggy weather early Thursday and crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, slamming into a home and killing multiple people on the flight.

At least three people were killed when a private jet crashed into a San Diego neighborhood Thursday morning, adding to the long list of aviation disasters this year.