Two adults and a child were hurt Saturday afternoon when a small single-engine plane came down near Capitol Expressway and Excalibur Drive in East San Jose, about a mile and a half from Reid-Hillview Airport.
The San Jose Fire Department said it got the report just before 3:10 p.m. All three people were aboard the plane, and police said they were taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. No one on the ground was reported hurt, and no vehicles were involved, according to the fire department, which said a minor fuel spill at the scene was absorbed.
San Jose police said drugs and alcohol did not appear to be factors, KTVU reported. The cause of the crash had not been released Saturday night, and officials had not identified the people aboard or said who was flying.
The plane
ABC7 News, citing Federal Aviation Administration records, identified the aircraft as a 1968 Cessna 177A Cardinal registered to Flying Twenty Inc., a nonprofit flying club for San Jose State University students, alumni and faculty.
Public flight-tracking data show the four-seat plane lifted off from Reid-Hillview about 3:06 p.m. and its track ended roughly 95 seconds later near the crash site, according to an analysis by the aviation site AeroCorner. The site noted that the registration comes from FAA and tracking records rather than an official statement about the crash.
It also reported that the FAA's public list of accident notices had no entry for the crash as of Saturday evening.