Small plane crash on suburban San Diego street leaves fiery wreckage and thousands without power
CBSN
El Cajon, California — A small plane crashed Monday night near San Diego, leaving a trail fiery wreckage on a suburban street and initially knocking out power to more than 2,500 customers, according to CBS San Diego affiliate KFMB-TV.
The San Diego Sheriff's Department said it wasn't immediately known how many people were aboard the Learjet that crashed shortly after 7 p.m. in the Bostonia area of El Cajon or where it was coming from. It was slated to land at nearby Gillespie Field in El Cajon.
The sheriff's department said firefighters didn't find any survivors at the scene. No injuries were reported on the ground, the department said.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.