LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small plane has crashed into a residential neighborhood in West Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Fire department says the crash was reported shortly before 6 p.m. Friday.

Television footage from a news helicopter showed the charred wreckage beneath street trees and a broken wing on the sidewalk.

No other details were immediately released.

A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said he was gathering details about what happened.

The wreckage occurred a few miles northeast of the Santa Monica Airport.