A Laurel plane crash left a pilot seriously injured after the small jet hit a mobile home park.
The small plane crashed in Anne Arundel County at around 10:30 a.m. on Thursday morning. The pilot, Ronald H. Dixon, 70, was the only one in the single engine Beechcraft Muskateer at the time of the crash. He was taken to he Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore and has been listed in critical condition. No one was hurt on the ground, the Washington Post reports.
According to officials, the plane had just taken off from Suburban airport, which is a general aviation airfield less than a mile from where the plane crashed.
After the crash, some streets around the neighborhood were closed for most of the day as officials had to work to contain a fuel leak.
Before the plane crashed, witnesses said that is seemed to be flying low and it hit one of the trees in the neighborhood. After hitting the tree, it went on to hit two homes before it crashed on the ground.
One witness who lives on the street, John Carter, had just gotten home when he heard a loud sound. He ran out of his house and noticed that the plane had broken apart and hit two homes. He claims that he and another neighbor pulled the pilot from the wreckage.
"We saw gas leaking, and we were afraid the plane was going to ignite," Carter said.
Carter said that Dixon was alert at the time, but it looked like he had broken his leg or his nose during the crash.
Crystal Brisbon was also home at the time of the crash. She says that the neighbors of the house where the plane hit weren't home at the time.
"It was scary," Brisbon told ABC. "They were fortunate, they weren't home, all of us were home, it came so close, that could have been our home."
The crash is being investigated by state and federal authorities. No information has been released about a possible cause.
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