A small plane carrying five people crashed into a residential area south of London on Sunday, police and rescue officials said.
Police said the five were unaccounted for and there were "minor injuries" among people on the ground.
Sky News earlier said that there were at least six people on board, but London police said the plane was carrying two pilots and three passengers.
The private plane crashed into a house in Broadwater Gardens in Farnborough, just south of London sometime after 2:30 p.m. (1330 GMT), officials said.
The neighborhood is a couple of kilometers (miles) north of Biggin Hill Airport, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from central London. The small airport is often used by executive jets and helicopters.
Sky News television said the plane was a Cessna Citation Executive Jet and was headed to France. It did not cite a source for the information.
Smoke could be seen rising from the smoldering brick house on the edge of a woodland in images shown on Sky. Fire trucks surrounded the house, which appeared to have been half destroyed.
Residents told the broadcaster they heard a plane flying in very low before hearing an explosion.
A pilot, who gave his name only as John, told Sky he was about to land at Biggin Hill when a mayday call came over the radio from the plane that crashed.
The pilot from the stricken plane said the aircraft was experiencing severe engine vibrations and alarms could be heard going off in the cockpit, John said. The pilot said he had five people onboard and wanted to make an emergency landing, he added.
John said after he landed he turned back to see the stricken plane just before it came down.
"It nose dived out of the sky and the radio went dead," he said.
Karl Mills said the plane nearly hit his house.
"It was the loudest noise I ever heard. It was like a bolt of thunder," Mills told Sky News. "I looked out and saw a ball of fire."
He said the plane crashed into the roof of a neighboring house before bursting into flames.
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