(CNN) — Four people died after a small plane crashed into a building near Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport in southern Kansas Thursday morning, city Fire Marshal Brad Crisp said.
There are five more injured and four unaccounted for, he said.
“Firefighters engaged in a horrific fight for several minutes. We have the fire under control. We are in the process of trying to determine if all the employees and visitors who may have been in the building are accounted for,” Fire Chief Ron Blackwell told CNN affilliate KSNW.
About 50 to 60 firefighters responded to the blaze and were evacuated after the structure was deemed unstable, according to Wichita police.
Two of those killed were inside the building when the plane crashed, police said.
One of the injured is in serious condition and another in fair condition, an official with Via Christi Health, a local hospital, told KSNW. Three other patients are in good condition.
FAA and National Transportation Safety Board investigators are on the scene.
“There is a small aircraft that went into the FlightSafety building” near Mid-Continent Airport, according to Steve Phillips, a FlightSafety International spokesman.
The plane is a Hawker Beechcraft B200 Super King Air, Phillips said. It was en route to Mena, Arizona, CNN affiliate KWCH reported.
The FAA said the twin-engine plane lost an engine on takeoff and crashed into a two-story building, KSNW reported. The roof on the building’s eastern side has collapsed, the station reported.
No information has yet been released on the identities of those in the plane or in the building. According to one aviation website, the aircraft can carry as many as 13 passengers.
It “crashed into the roof of our training center. I have no information on how many on board,” he said. “We have the manager of the training center on site, and he’s making sure everyone is OK, but I don’t have an answer for that.”
The building is across the street from the airport, he said.
There were about 100 people inside the building at the time, Blackwell told KWCH.
Video from KSNW showed thick smoke rising from the building at 10:20 a.m. (11:20 a.m. ET).
Flights were operating normally, though some roads around the airport have been blocked off, the airport said in a tweet.
“The building has sustained serious damage, including the collapse of walls and ceilings,” read another airport tweet.
