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.

A small plane crashed in dense fog in a Tierrasanta neighborhood early Thursday morning, presumably killing all six people on board, injuring eight people on the ground and burning several cars and homes in military housing.

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