Plane Crashes Into New Jersey Home Sparking Multiple Fires

A small plane crashed into a home in Colonia, New Jersey, sparking multiple fires in a residential neighborhood. Authorities said that the house was not occupied at the time, but a woman was in the home next door and managed to escape to safety after the flames engulfed her house.

Over 200 firefighters from nine different agencies rushed to the scene to battle the flames.

"I saw this thing coming in like wing up, wing down, and for a little plane, he had a pretty wide wingspan, about maybe 100 feet above the house just roaring in, and then boom -- an explosion lit up the sky," one witness told WABC.

Authorities have not released information about the pilot or said if there any passengers on board the Cessna 414. The plane departed from Leesburg, Virginia and was heading to Linden Airport where it was scheduled to land just before 11 a.m. local time. 

"Right now, we don't believe any civilians on the ground were impacted by the crash, although the pilot, who knows, nobody knows for sure yet. Nobody has gotten close to the plane," Woodbridge Township Mayor John E. McCormac said.

The Federal Aviation Administration is on its way to the scene and will work with the National Transportation Safety Board to determine what caused the plane to crash.