We had that happen in Alameda a long time ago. A Navy jet heading into NAS Alameda slammed into a large apartment bldg, and the carnage was huge.
And then there was the privately owned antique Air Force F-85 owned by William Penn Patrick, crashed into Farrel’s ice cream parlor in Sacramento when about 50 kids were in there for a birthday party. Can’t get much uglier than that.
I think it was Christmas time, 1984, when a small private plane attempting to find its way through the fog to Buchanan Field in Concord crashed into Sun Valley Mall when it was full of thousands of shoppers. That was another ultra ugly one. My wife and I were with four of our kids at a bowling alley, and our two eldest were at the mall that night, but far from the crash site. The daughter and grandson of the woman that I had just bought our house from were not so fortunate; they were both right under the spot where the plane hit, and were both severely burned.
BTW...hats off to the fantastic men an women of the VBFD! They did outstanding work. They had a jet fuel fueled inferno and 25 mph winds and brought that thing under control in an hour!