3 dead after small plane crashes into airport hangar in Upland, officials say

UPLAND, Calif. (KABC) -- Three people are dead after a small plane crashed into a hangar at Cable Airport in Upland Sunday morning.

San Bernardino County firefighters responded to the scene extinguished a fire that had engulfed the aircraft. They managed to stop the flames from spreading to the rest of the hangar and the three helicopters that were being housed there.

All three people inside the aircraft, the pilot and two passengers, were pronounced dead at the scene. They have not been identified.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the single-engine Beechcraft P35 crashed during departure from the airport around 6:40 a.m. It struck an Ontario police department hangar. No one inside the structure was injured.

The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash.

Two other small-plane crashes happened earlier this month near French Valley Airport in Riverside County.