A small, home-built kit airplane crashed in Simi Valley, California, on Saturday afternoon, damaging two homes and and catching fire, officials said.

Newly released audio captured the last communication between a pilot and air traffic control moments before a plane crashed into a Simi Valley neighborhood, killing two people and a dog. It was just before 2 p.

Two people killed when a small plane crashed into houses over the weekend in Simi Valley were identified by the coroner Monday as a 69-year-old man and his 36-year-old son. Paul Berkovitz, of Westlake Village,