One woman was killed and another badly injured Wednesday evening when a private plane clipped a Target store just west of Montgomery Field and crashed into an adjacent parking lot by a Costco.
The Mooney M20 went down near Convoy Street and Othello Avenue in Kearny Mesa about 5:30 p.m. after a landing attempt at the municipal airport went awry, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department and Federal Aviation Administration.
Firefighters quickly extinguished a small blaze caused by the crash, San Diego fire spokesman Lee Swanson said. Medics took the pilot, a woman in her 50s, and her 78-year-old passenger to a hospital for treatment of major injuries, he said.
The older woman died at the hospital, Swanson said.
Two witnesses suffered minor injuries helping get the women out of the wrecked aircraft. One was taken to a hospital, while the other was treated at the scene.
A witness told NBC San Diego the single-engine aircraft clipped the roof of a Target store and a utility pole before hitting the ground.
