A National Transportation Safety Board investigator said both the runway lights and an automated weather-notification system at the destination airport were inoperable when the Cessna 550 plowed into the Murphy Canyon neighborhood at about 3:45 a.

The pilot of a small private plane that crashed in a residential neighborhood of San Diego earlier this week faced fog as he attempted to land, while runway lights and a weather alert system at the airport were not working,

Authorities say a private plane clipped power lines before slamming into a home in San Diego. The crash killed the co-founder of a music talent agency and two of its employees and ignited cars in a neighborhood of U.