Nine-month-old baby and two adults die when plane crashes into backyard in Utah - but two children and woman survive and are rushed to hospital

Two adults and a nine-month-old baby girl were killed and three more passengers were injured when a small plane crashed into a backyard in a residential Utah neighborhood Saturday afternoon.

Video from the scene showed the house ablaze after the Piper PA-32 plane crashed into a resident's backyard at 8691 S. 3789 West in West Jordan. 

The West Jordan Police Department said that six people, three adults and three children, were aboard the plane when it went down. 

The adult male pilot, an adult female and a nine-month-old baby were confirmed to have died. 

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Authorities said a small airplane crashed into a residential backyard on Saturday afternoon in West Jordan, Utah

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The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane was a small Piper PA-32 that took off from a local airport Saturday afternoon

 The three surviving passengers were rushed to hospital.

An adult woman was reported to be in a critical condition, while a two-year-old boy is in stable condition.

A 12-year-old child has been released from the hospital after receiving treatment. 

The owner of the home, an unidentified elderly woman who was inside at the time of the crash, sustained injuries and is also currently in critical condition.

Authorities said they are still reaching out to the victim's next of kin and their identities will likely be released on Sunday. 

Neighbors reportedly tried to rescue the injured homeowner from inside the residence but had to find another way in. 

Cell phone footage taken by a frightened neighbor shows an enormous cloud of dark smoke billowing into the air. 

An active inferno rages on as ambulance sirens, horrified witnesses and the crackle of the flames is heard. 

'I think a plane just crashed into their house,' a woman says, 'These are our neighbors,'

The woman's voice shakes in fear as she apologizes for the unsteady camera. 

'Sorry, I'm literally scared. I have to go downstairs and get our stuff together in case our house catches on fire.'

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The full extent of fatalities and injuries has not been disclosed, but at one person inside the home at the time of the crash was injured 

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An overhead view of the plane crash showed much of the house and the surrounding area destroyed  while firefighters were at the scene 

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The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the plane crash. Pictured: witnesses could see thick black smoke coming from the crash site 

Desert News  and KSL reports that several medical helicopters carried injured civilians from the scene to local hospitals. 

A number of fire trucks, ambulances and other emergency vehicles were also at the scene.  

The horrifying crash caused the home to catch fire, and a total of three homes were damaged in the incident.  

It's unclear what caused the plane crash, and whether it involved technical or human error.

The aircraft had taken off from the South Valley Regional Airport and went down just two miles away around 1:30pm.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are currently investigating. 

The tail numbers of the aircraft will be publicly released once formally verified by investigators, said Allen Kenitzer, of the FAA Office of Communications. 

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Reports said the several medical helicopters were at the scene and carried  an unspecified number of injured civilians to local area hospitals 

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The aircraft had taken off from the South Valley Regional Airport and went down just two miles away around 1:30pm. Pictured: Fire rescue crews stand at the scene earlier Saturday afternoon

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Authorities have not disclosed the cause of the plane crash, as well as if the incident was a technical or human error 

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Pictured: Photos taken by a West Jordan resident show several ambulances and emergency vehicles driving to the crash site around 1:30pm on Saturday

Jasson Soriano, a 13-year-old who lives around the corner from the crash site, said he was standing in his front yard when he saw the plane flying 'super low.'

Soriano said a plume of smoke suddenly appeared and 'I saw the whole neighborhood come running out.'

West Jordan Mayor Dirk Burton said the plane crash happened in an established neighborhood, where several houses are owned by the original homeowners.

'So they know each other extremely well and they’re very close knit. So they were on top of it very quickly to go help out the residents that were affected,' he told Desert News.  

DailyMail.com has reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board for details.