SAN DIEGO — A small plane crashed off the San Diego coast shortly after takeoff, killing all six people on board, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday .

The twin-engine Cessna 414 crashed at around 12:30 p.m. Sunday, not long after it took off, the Federal Aviation Administration said . The plane was returning to Phoenix one day after flying out from Arizona, according to the flight tracking website Flightaware.com.

Searchers found a debris field later Sunday about 5 miles (8 kilometers) off the coast of Point Loma, a San Diego neighborhood that juts into the Pacific, U.S. Coast Guard officials said. The water in the search area is about 200 feet (61 meters) deep.

Although the FAA said all six people on board the plane were killed, authorities haven’t identified them. Fam

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