(CNN) -- After his plane ripped into pieces as it crashed Sunday night in a Utah neighborhood, the pilot was found burned and banged up but coherent, according to a witness. The Cessna 210 single-engine plane went down shortly before 6 p.m. in a residential area of Roy, Utah, according to Ogden police dispatcher Brittany Dean. The plane had been cleared for landing at nearby Ogden Airport when it crashed, said Mike Fergus of the Federal Aviation Administration. Gary Cox was in the neighborhood, attending a family birthday party, when the power went out right after the plane went down. He told CNN affiliate KSL that he and a few other people found a man, later identified as the pilot, lying on the ground.
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NEW: Power has been restored to all but 875 of 1,700 homes
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A single-engine planes crashes in a Utah residential neighborhood
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The pilot was hurt but coherent after the crash, a witness says
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Two occupied homes caught fire after the plane crashed
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