Flight School Plane Crashes In California Neighborhood

A plane crashed in the driveway of a Santee home, killing the instructor and student who were flying the aircraft owned by an El Cajon-based flight school, officials confirmed. A Piper Cherokee crashed in the driveway of a home on Paseo De Los Castillos just after 9 a.m., San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputies said.“I heard a plane sputtering real bad,” said witness Craig Lilley. Lilley lives near the cul-de-sac where the plane crashed, south of Prospect Avenue and west of Cuyamaca Street. Lilley looked out his bedroom window and saw a plane trying to turn around toward Gillespie Field.