A double-engine Cessna crashed in a Fairview neighborhood, just east of Portland over the weekend. Three people were killed.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Federal investigators spent Monday in Fairview trying to figure out what caused a small plane crash in a neighborhood over the weekend.
Three people died, including two people in the plane and one person who was inside a townhome. A spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board said more information should be known Monday night or Tuesday.
The twin-engine Cessna took out power lines in Fairview on Saturday morning, and the power lines then started a brush fire, before the plane crashed into multiple townhomes.
Neighbors are still in shock and shaken from the events.
“It was a giant explosion of red and black smoke and I immediately called 9-1-1,” said Tia Ross, who witnessed the plane crash just a couple hundred feet from her back window.
At the time of the crash, Ross was inside. She described …