A US Navy training plane, which took off from Florida, on Friday, crashed in a residential neighborhood in Alabama near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, killing two people on board, authorities said.

A spokesman for the Naval Air Force Commander, Zach Harrell, said that both people in a T-6B Tuxan 2 training plane were killed, but their names were not immediately revealed, and there were no reports of casualties on the ground.

For his part, Foley Fire Police Chief Joy Darby said that the respondents faced a "huge fire" in a house, and several cars caught fire.

The fire chief told local news outlets that the firefighters had managed to "quickly stop the fire".

The accident occurred southeast of Mobile near the city of Foley and the town of Magnolia Springs. Darby described the neighborhood as a "densely populated" residential area, and added that no firefighters were injured.

Navy spokeswoman Julie Zigenhorn said the plane took off from the Navy's Whitingfield Air Force Base, about 30 miles (48.28 km) northeast of Pensacola, Florida.

The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office wrote on Twitter that the US Department of Defense and the Navy were preparing to take over the investigation.

Source: Agencies

By:Nadeemy Haded