Fifteen individuals have been taken to a hospital when a skydiving plane went off a runway and crashed within the woods close to an airport in southern New Jersey on Wednesday night, in response to authorities.
The incident on the Cross Keys Airport, about 21 miles southeast of Philadelphia, concerned a Cessna 208B carrying 15 individuals, in response to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson, who mentioned it’s beneath investigation.
Aerial footage of the crashed aircraft reveals it within the woods, with a number of items of particles close by. Firetrucks and different emergency autos surrounded the scene.
Three persons are being evaluated at Cooper College Hospital’s trauma middle in Camden, New Jersey, and eight individuals with much less extreme accidents are being handled in its emergency division, Wendy A. Marano, a spokesperson for the hospital, mentioned. 4 different sufferers additionally with “minimal accidents” are ready for additional analysis, she mentioned. She wasn’t in a position to present the precise nature of the accidents.
Members of the hospital’s EMS and trauma division have been on the crash website, she mentioned.
An individual who answered the cellphone at Cross Keys Airport on Wednesday mentioned he had no info and referred inquiries to Skydive Cross Keys, a industrial skydiving enterprise positioned on the airport. Skydive Cross Keys didn’t instantly reply to an e-mail from The Related Press requesting remark.
Gloucester County Emergency Administration warned the general public on its Fb web page to keep away from the realm with the intention to let emergency autos entry the positioning.
