Simi Valley Aircraft Crash: Pilot Killed As Small Plane Hits Houses, FAA & NTSB Examine
A small plane hit two homes in a residential neighbourhood of Simi Valley on Saturday afternoon, killing the pilot and igniting a fireplace, police confirmed. Nobody on the bottom was harm. The airplane, a Vans RV-10, crashed at roughly 2:10 PM PT on the 200 block of Excessive Meadow Road simply off Wooden Ranch Parkway, in line with the Simi Valley Police Division.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported that the pilot, who has not been named, was the one one on board the airplane. The plane had departed from William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster and was flying to Camarillo Airport.
“The constructions are each two-story, single-family houses that have been impacted by fireplace and sustained structural injury,” the Ventura County Fireplace Division said in a social media submit on platform X (previously Twitter). Firefighters have been in a position to shortly knock down the fireplace and resume salvage efforts all through the night.
#meadowincident; VCFD is on scene of a small, single engine fixed-wing plane that crashed into two constructions within the 200 block of Excessive Meadow Road within the Wooden Ranch space of Simi valley. The constructions are each two-story, single-family houses that have been impacted by fireplace and… pic.twitter.com/W4L18G1dbj
— VCFD PIO (@VCFD_PIO) Could 3, 2025
Emergency responders helped residents out of the broken residences. “Individuals have been inside each houses on the time of the crash however have been safely evacuated with no reported accidents,” authorities reported.
Video footage posted to social media illustrates heavy smoke emitting from the crash website and quite a few emergency responders together with quite a lot of tools swarming the houses concerned.
Wooden Ranch Parkway and Excessive Meadow Road have been cordoned off because the authorities initiated an investigation into the reason for the crash. The FAA and the Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) are conducting a joint investigation of the incident.
