Plane crashes near the hospital; 2 dead - wood-TV.

WATSONVILLE, California (AP) - Moments after takeoff, a small plane crashed in a parking lot near the Hospital of California and burst into flames as it skidded into an Office unoccupied building, killing two people on board, authorities said.

The single-engine plane skidded about 50 to 75 yards through the lot next to Watsonville community hospital before hitting the facade of the building, said Watsonville Police Chief Deputy Rudy Escalante.

On the ground, no one was hurt in the accident Thursday night and the aircraft has not reached the hospital.

The couple had just off from near the city airport when their plane went down at around 7: 30 am spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration that Lynn Lunsford said. There no was no immediate word on the cause of the accident.

Photos showed the charred end of tail of the aircraft keep to the construction of history, of which a part had been blackened by the smoke. Damages are contained in a region at the end of the construction.

Escalante said the building appeared to be structurally sound despite the crash.

Witness Thomas Arnold was in the parking lot when he heard the overload of the aircraft. He said Santa Cruz Sentinel that the plane had refit laterally across the parking lot about 15 feet above his head.

"I saw two faces and two large sets of eyes," the 34 year old Arnold said occupants.

Hospital spokeswoman Cindy Weigelt said the building mainly housed offices of physicians and a street of the hospital.

"None of our patients was hit," she told Associated Press. "It had not reached the hospital."

She found that the medical office building was approximately 100 metres from the runway of the airport.

Witness George Benson told the Sentinel that he watched the aircraft take-off and the pilot saw appear to try to identify a line of fog.

"Heading towards the coast and tried to," Benson said. "The moment when he took off that he was too steep, too slow."

The names of the two people killed were not released. No evacuations have received the order of the hospital.

The aircraft was a 1974 single-engine Mooney M20, Escalante said.

Watsonville is located near the Monterey Bay, 90 km south of San Francisco.