( 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 . `` He was confused , hurt and in a lot of pain , '' Cox said . `` But he was able to answer questions and get where he needed to be . '' The plane 's engine sat in the front yard of a house , Cox said , with other parts strewn throughout the neighborhood . Roy fire Chief John Ritchie told KSL that the pilot was talking when he was transported to a local hospital , where he was in critical condition Sunday night . Two occupied homes -- one with three people inside , the other with two -- caught fire after the crash , Ritchie said . But no one inside was hurt and , within about an hour , firefighters were able to put out the fires . The crash knocked out power for 1,700 homes , starting at 5:58 p.m. , said Margaret Oler of Rocky Mountain Power . By 7:10 p.m. , power had been restored to all but 875 customers . A nearby elementary school was opened as a temporary shelter for those without heat and lights , Ritchie said . Visibility was minimal at the time of the crash , as the National Weather Service had issued a dense fog advisory for the area . That warning remains in effect until 9 a.m. Monday . Roy is about 6 miles southwest of Ogden , with the affected neighborhood near Ogden-Hinckley Airport . CNN 's Greg Morrison and Amanda Watts contributed to this report .
NEW : Electricity has been restored to all but 875 of 1,700 homes . A single - engine plane crashes in a Utah residential area . The pilot was hurt but coherent after the crash , a witness says . Two occupied homes caught fire after the plane crashed .