A search was underway Sunday night for six missing people after a small plane crashed in the ocean off of San Diego in the afternoon.

Authorities said a Cessna went down in the ocean Sunday around 12:44 p.m. off the coast of Sunset Cliffs. Initial reports placed the crash location around 1.5 miles off the coast. A search was

First responders were called to the scene on Sunday after reports of a downed aircraft in water near Point Loma. The U.S. Coast Guard says the plane was a Cessna 414, and that six people were aboard at the time of the crash. Tracking from Flightware shows that the plane intended to travel from San Diego to Phoenix.

The US Coast Guard and other agencies are searching Monday for six people that were onboard a twin-engine Cessna 414 that crashed in the Pacific Ocean three miles west of San Diego.

Both the NTSB and the FAA are conducting a joint investigation into the incident that occurred off the Pacific coast.

Twenty people were on board the plane, which crashed shortly after departing the Tullahoma Regional Airport. There are no casualties and the injuries were described as minor.

Mauritania Airlines has dismissed rumours a flight carrying hundreds of Hajj pilgrims crashed on its way to the holy Muslim city of Mecca. The false posts share old footage depicting turbulence aboard an Indonesian flight and an AI-generated image of a burning aircraft.

A Maple Park man has been identified after he was killed and a toddler related to him was injured in a small plane crash Saturday in DeKalb County, officials said.