Five people were killed when a small plane crashed through a fence and hit a car while aborting takeoff at an Arizona airport Tuesday afternoon, officials said.

Five people were aboard a plane that crashed in Arizona on Tuesday night. The condition of those passengers was not immediately known.

The passenger jet collided with a vehicle as it tried to take off from Falcon Field in Mesa, Ariz., the authorities said.

Five people were killed in the crash shortly after the plane took off from an Airport in Arizona on Tuesday afternoon - with flames and smoke billowing from the scene

A plane about to take off from a Mesa, Arizona, airport crashed into a vehicle, killing five people, officials said. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Donnell Evans said a Honda HA-420 jet crashed at the Falcon Field Airport about 4:40 p.m. The plane struck a vehicle outside of airport property on Greenfield Road, Evans said.