Plane Crash Kills 3 in Fairview

FAIRVIEW, Ore.–

Neighbors say they could feel it.  “That shook the entire house. I know, oh my God. I felt the whole house shake. We think that an airplane crashed into the house,” said witnesses. A double engine Cessna crashed into a townhome in Fairview killing three people.  Two victims were ub the plane, and one person was inside a townhome.

John Block with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s office says phone started ringing.

“We received calls of black smoke.”

When investigators got there on Saturday, they confirmed, “There was a small aircraft that was flying over and it crashed at some point during the crash. It hit a power pole were towered causing it to fall over.  And so the power lines were fell into a field of some sort and started a brush fire.”

The plane was experiencing mechanical trouble, when it struck a row of townhomes, sparking a fire that spread to four units, displacing five families.