Authorities say two people and a dog were killed when the small plane they were in crashed into a neighborhood in Simi Valley near Los Angeles. Two homes were damaged.

Residents in the two homes that were struck were safely evacuated, the Ventura County Fire Department said. Two people aboard the plane were killed.

Five people have been rescued from an alligator-infested swamp three days after their plane crashed in the Amazonian jungle in Bolivia.

Image via Shutterstock I don't know if they're lucky or unlucky. Five passengers survived a plane crash, only to learn they had crash-landed in an alligator-infested swamp. The five were forced to survive for 36 hours on top of the plane.

The small plane was forced to make an emergency landing in a swamp in the Bolivian Amazon after an engine failure.