New Details Reveal Three Killed, Home Leveled in Riverside, Calif., Plane Crash: UPDATED

RIVERSIDE, CA – At least three people are dead and two homes are destroyed following a tragic plane crash into a Southern California house Monday evening. A man, woman and teenage girl are among the dead, police say.

The FAA tells Patch that it was a Cesna 310 which "crashed under unknown circumstances" about a half-mile from Riverside Municipal Airport at 4:40 p.m.. It had just taken off from Riverside and was headed to San Jose when the crash occurred.

According to the Riverside Fire Department, five people were on the plane — and at first only one of them was known to have survived. That survivor was initially believed a teenage girl who was in town with her family for a cheerleading competition at Disneyland in Anaheim. However, fire officials now say that another woman also survived the crash. Both women are now believed to be in their 30s or 40s.

"The first understanding was that the person looked very young... so the assumption was made that there were teenagers on the plane," Fire Chief Michael Moore said at a late night press conference.

Officials had first said at an earlier press conference on Monday that they believe those on the plane included the parents of the "young" female survivor, and possibly two additional females who may had been attending the cheerleading event.

However, on Tuesday, police told Patch that the dead included a man, a woman and a teenage girl. The woman's body was recovered on Monday shortly after the crash, but the man and girl remained inside the wreckage as of Tuesday morning and crews were working to get them out.

Moore had also initially said that a second victim who was hospitalized was a resident of one of the homes. He now says that woman had been ejected during the plane crash and into the home — which is why officials first thought she was inside the house prior to the crash.

"They were ejected into the house and that's where firefighters were able to make an aggressive interior attack and extricate them from the house early on," according to Moore. "So the plane hit the residence and they were thrown into the residence where the firefighters rescued them from there."

He added that crews now believe nobody was home at the time of the crash. They were able to confirm that information with the homeowners, who came home from "a family event" to the tragic scene. However, firefighters planned to continue searching through the wreckage.

"Even though we feel we've accounted for all the residents, we just want to make sure nobody was in one of these residences that we don't know about," he said.

Aerial footage from the scene showed one house was a total loss. The adjacent homes on both sides also appeared to have sustained some damage in the incident, and Moore said two homes were destroyed in total.

CBS Los Angeles was live over the scene Monday evening. Watch their live stream below:

Dozens of emergency personnel were sent to the scene, and smoke was billowing up into the sky from the blaze. Firefighters and NTSB investigators were at the scene throughout the night.

An entire block of about 40 homes was evacuated following the crash, Moore said.

A shelter was set up for displaced residents and the American Red Cross confirmed they were assisting five displaced families but were anticipating a sixth.

The American Red Cross also was providing mental health workers trained to deal with disasters to speak with residents in the neighborhood about what they saw and experienced.

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