Three dead after plane crashes into car in hardware store parking lot near Houston airport

A small plane crashed into a car Thursday in a parking lot near a Houston airport, killing three people aboard the aircraft, fire officials said.

Houston Fire Department spokesman Jay Evans said the plane crashed shortly after 1pm into a car that was parked at a hardware store near Hobby Airport in the southeastern part of the city. Fire Captain Ruy Lozano said officials believe the three people killed in the accident were on the plane.

No one was in the parked car that was hit by the plane, Lozano said.

“It didn’t strike the building. No fire. No fuel spill,” he said.

Evans said no other injuries were reported.

Witnesses said the plane appeared to have fallen from the sky and dropped to the ground.

“There was a great big loud noise, like a bomb and a real screechy noise. When I looked out I saw the plane in the parking lot,” Susan Conklin, who was in her resale shop across the street from the hardware store when the crash occurred, said in a phone interview.