Small plane crashes onto DeKalb County house

<p>A small plane crashed onto a suburban Atlanta house on Monday just after taking off from a regional airport, but authorities said there were no serious injuries.</p><p>The single-engine Piper went down on the roof of the home near DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in north DeKalb County about 12 miles from downtown Atlanta. The pilot walked away, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said.</p><p>The aircraft, owned by a leasing company in Alpharetta and piloted by one of its executives, sat relatively intact on the roof, though the engine was hanging through the roof of the house and one wing was broken. The cause of the crash was not immediately known, but witnesses said it hit a tree and fell onto the house.</p><p>"I thought it was a bomb or something," said Lucero Espinoza, a neighbor.</p><p>DeKalb Fire Department Capt. Eric Jackson said two people were inside, and they were treated by emergency personnel and transported to a hospital for further evaluation. Jackson said neither had life-threatening injuries.</p><p>They were later identified as Ilsa Sanchez and her 13-year-old son. Her husband, Andreas Sanchez, said she called him at work to tell him a plane had hit the house.</p><p>Bergen said the National Transportation Safety Board would determine the cause of the crash.</p>

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