Plane crashes over retirement home: several injured

Philadelphia (USA) - At least five people were injured in a plane crash in the US state of Pennsylvania .

There were five passengers on board the small aircraft.
There were five passengers on board the small aircraft.  © Suzette Wenger/LNP/LancasterOnline via AP/dpa

The "Beechcraft Bonanza" aircraft crashed from the sky on Sunday afternoon (local time) over Lancaster County, west of the city of Philadelphia, for reasons as yet unexplained, according to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The small plane, which was carrying five people, crashed directly into the parking lot of a retirement home and damaged several parked vehicles, according to a CNN report.

All five passengers were injured and taken to hospital. Residents of the retirement home were not harmed.

The FAA now wants to determine the cause of the plane crash. The governor of the state of Philadelphia, Josh Shapiro (51), wrote in a post on X that more information will follow as soon as it is available.

Several cars in the parking lot were damaged.
Several cars in the parking lot were damaged.  © Logan Gehman/LNP/LancasterOnline via AP/dpa

Meanwhile, images from the crash site show burnt-out debris from the small plane lying in a parking lot.