Two people were killed on Wednesday after a private jet crashed into houses near a small airport in the town of San Fernando, Buenos Aires Province.Local authorities said the aircraft went off the runway, crashed into a house and consequently burst into flames, causing the deaths of the only two individuals onboard: pilot Martín Fernández Loza, 44, and co-pilot Agustín Oforte, 35.

The aircraft collided with houses that were outside the premises, as a result of which the two pilots died. There was no-one in the houses” at the time, said Julio César Bono, a spokesman for Argentina’s Airport Security Police (PSA).

The plane was flying in from the exclusive resort of Punta del Este, Uruguay, aviation sources told the AFP and Noticias Argentinas news agencies.Bono said the plane had been in Rio de Janeiro before heading to Buenos Aires.A spokesman for Aeropuertos Argentina, which operates the country’s main airports, said that the plane failed to stop on landing at the airport, and that the incident occurred at 1.18pm local time.

Personnel from the PSA, SAME emergency services and the Buenos Aires provincial police rushed to San Fernando to tackle the consequences of the air disaster.The private aircraft reportedly belonged to the family of Jorge Brito, the wealthy owner of Banco Macro and president of River Plate football club.The causes of the accident were not immediately known. The plane – a Bombardier Challenger 300 LV-GOK – intended to land at San Fernando’s fifth runway but went off track