Two witnesses told TV stations that a woman crawled from one of the houses with her clothes on fire, saying she had been flying the plane.
The Cessna 310 crashed shortly after taking off from Riverside Municipal Airport headed for San Jose.
Officials say a small plane has crashed into two homes in Riverside.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna 310 aircraft crashed Monday evening shortly after taking off from Riverside Municipal Airport.
FAA spokesman Ian Gregor says the plane was headed for San Jose when it crashed about a half-mile northeast of the Riverside airport.
Riverside Police Lt. Charles Payne says the plane crashed into a residential neighborhood and collided with two homes.
Video from a news helicopter showed plane wreckage and at least one home engulfed in flames near the intersection of Central and Streeter Avenue. The video also appeared to show a person being loaded onto a stretcher and removed from the home.
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