Plane leaving Bloomington crashes short of Muncie airport
Authorities say a pilot and two pedestrians have been hurt after a small plane missed a Muncie, Indiana, airport runway and crashed onto a trail. A small plane carrying a pilot and two pedestrians were injured when a Piper Cherokee from Bloomington, Indiana, missed an airport runway and crashed onto a trail near Delaware County Regional Airport. Two of the three people, including the pilot, suffered serious injuries and are expected to be transferred to an Indianapolis hospital from the Muncie hospital where they were taken. The pilot was the only person on board and was entrapped in the plane's wreckage before he could be rescued. The accident occurred about half a mile from a runway approach. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of the crash.
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A pilot and two pedestrians were hurt Monday when a small plane missed an airport runway in Indiana and crashed onto a trail, authorities said.
Two of the three people injured including the pilot suffered serious injuries and were expected to be transferred to an Indianapolis hospital from the Muncie hospital where all three had been taken, authorities said. The condition of the third person was not immediately available.
A Piper Cherokee traveling from Bloomington crashed at 10:24 a.m. about half a mile (0.80 kilometers) from a runway approach at Delaware County Regional Airport, Tim Baty, director of the Delaware County Airport Authority, told a news conference. The pilot was the only person aboard.
Two people on the Cardinal Greenway rail trail also were injured, Baty said.
The names of those injured were not immediately released.
The pilot was entrapped in the plane wreckage before he could be recued, Muncie Fire Chief Dan Burford said.
A fire in the plane's tail and debris was put out by nearby American Electric Power employees with fire extinguishers, Baty said.
Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board officials arrived on the scene to investigate, he said.