Terror as plane crashes into home and bursts into flames in Mississippi suburb

A small plane carrying three people crashed into a suburban neighborhood in Mississippi, hitting at least one home.

A deputy fire chief told a local news channel that one person escaped the buing home in Jackson Tuesday evening with minor injuries. Authorities did not have immediate information on casualties.

The Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says the Piper PA-32 single-engine plane is registered to a company in Flowood, Mississippi.

Consoling friends: Unidentified friends of the pilot of the small plane hug each other as they await information as to the pilot and passengers

She says information was not immediately available about the condition of the people aboard the plane.

Roger and Michele Latham, from Superior Pallet Company in Flowood, Mississipi, who own the plane, said their grown daughter, Emily Latha 

Latham was near the crash site and said her father was supposed to have been on board but changed his plans.

‘He went hunting,’ she said. ‘Thank God.’

On the job: A fire fighter reenters the home where authorities say the small plane carrying three people crashed shortly after 5pm on Tuesday

Checking the details: Investigators review notes as fire fighters combat the fire

Witnesses say large flames and black smoke rose about 50 feet from a buing house that was hit in the neighborhood of modest, single-family homes surrounded by big magnolia and oak trees about a half-mile from the zoo.

The FAA says the plane had just departed Hawkins Field Airport, nearby, and was headed for Raymond, Mississippi when it crashed.

Vivian Payne, who lives about six blocks from the crash site, said that about 5 p.m., she heard a loud bang that sounded different from an electrical transformer blowing.

‘It shook the walls of my house,’ Payne said as she stood among ambulances, police cars and fire trucks, their lights flashing in the chilly night air.

At the scene: Onlookers try to capture the scene where authorities say the small plane crashed

On the job: More fire fighters reenter the home

Serious work: A fireman carries empty oxygen tanks from battling the fire