Private Jet Crashes Into House In Georgia

A small plane has crashed into a subdivision in the northern Atlanta suburbs Friday night, killing the pilot and setting a house ablaze, authorities said.
FAA spokesman Rick Breitenfeldt said a Cessna Citation I crashed on Vistawood Drive in Marietta, Georgia, about three miles northeast of Cobb County International Airport, around 7.20pm Friday.
The plane, coming from Wilmington, Delaware, en route to Fulton County Airport, crashed next to a house and exploded.
The house next door caught on fire from the radiant heat and was fully engulfed when the Cobb County Fire Department arrived on the scene, authorities said.
Everyone in both houses got out safely and no injuries were reported.
Some neighborhood residents witnessed the plane crash.
'I noticed they were looking up in the sky and I see a plane going straight down, it was going down in a corkscrew fashion, it was really slow, I couldn't hear an engine,' resident John Perry told Fox 5.
Resident Duncan Elrod was working on his roof nearby and filmed the immediate aftermath of the crash.
Elrod thought the pilot may have been trying to land on the street, but the angle was too sharp and they could not make it.
'And I heard a plane and it sounded like it was flying really, really low and about the time I started to look and see where it was, there was a boom and huge explosion, and a large fireball,' said Elrod of the crash.
A large black plume of smoke could be seen for miles in the area of the crash Friday night.
Officials said the pilot issued a distress call from the Cessna Citation I - a small-sized business jet that can hold five passengers and two crew members.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate.