Small plane carrying six crashes off the coast of California

A small plane with six people aboard crashed into the ocean about miles off Sunset Cliffs Sunday afternoon prompting a search involving several agencies The Coast Guard received the account at p m and began searching the debris field with several assets including a Jayhawk helicopter a C- airplane the Cutter Sea Otter and two smaller boats revealed Petty Officer Charlie Valor Related Articles Landing gear collapse on Alaska Airlines landing in California caused by excessive grinding during maintenance NTSB says San Diego plane crash is a devastating loss to the alternative rock music population Runway lights were out as pilot tried to land at foggy San Diego airport before fatal crash Music agent Dave Shapiro and ex-Devil Wears Prada drummer assumed killed in California plane crash Military group bands together after San Diego plane crash I ll do anything for them None of the people inferred to be on board had been located by early evening as the search continued Coast Guard leaders noted The plane was a Cessna which is a pressurized twin-engine aircraft designed to carry six to eight passengers according to bureaucrats San Diego lifeguards initially assisted with the search then were called off after it became clear the plane went down in water that is presumably feet deep or more a spokesperson declared The U S Coast Guard alerted San Diego fire department lifeguards after receiving reports from vessels of a large splash approximately three miles off Sunset Cliffs declared Candace Hadley a spokesperson for San Diego Fire-Rescue Lifeguards responded with several rescue vessels boats and certain personal watercraft who located an oil sheen and several debris on the water Hadley announced She reported lifeguards requested additional encouragement from the Coast Guard because of the depth of the water being searched The Coast Guard has since assumed responsibility for search rescue and recovery operations Initial debris recovered by lifeguards have been turned over to Coast Guard government Our Triton vessel is at this moment on standby in event there is any additional need for assistance she noted The high-performance Triton is equipped with hoses and can be used to fight fires This is the second private plane to crash in the San Diego area in the past weeks On May a Cessna Citation II jet crashed into a Murphy Canyon neighborhood damaging a four-plex in the military housing area and setting vehicles on fire Six people on board the jet the pilot and five passengers were killed in the crash Miraculously only a limited people suffered minor injuries on the ground Severy homes were damaged in the Murphy Canyon area after a small plane crashed early Thursday morning setting several of the homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks Nelvin C Cepeda The San Diego Union-Tribune The FAA and NTSB are examining the cause of that crash Functionaries noted the plane was heading to Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in Kearny Mesa on a foggy evening when the plane clipped a transmission line about feet in the air In that development the plane had departed from Teterboro N J then stopped in Wichita Kan before heading on to San Diego With Sunday s crash it was not instantly clear where the plane had taken off from or its intended destination