A small plane crashed in the San Bernardino area Saturday night and authorities were investigating, police said.
It wasn’t immediately known if anyone survived the crash, which was located in a “significant debris field” in the area north of Palm Avenue and Verdemont Drive, east of the 215 Freeway and Kendall Drive, San Bernardino Police Sgt. Christopher Gray said.
Initial calls about the crash came in just after 8 p.m. and the aircraft appeared to be a small twin-engine plane.
The search for survivors was hampered by the rainy weather and difficult terrain. Gray said police, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and the San Bernardino County Fire Department were investigating and the crash may have happened in the county’s jurisdiction. The crash site is about a dozen miles northwest of San Bernardino International Airport.
It wasn’t immediately known how many people were aboard the plane, where it was flying from and to and what model the plane is. A request for comment was placed with the Federal Aviation Administration.