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, based on authorities.
The incident on the Cross Keys Airport, about 21 miles southeast of Philadelphia, concerned a Cessna 208B carrying 15 individuals, based on a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson, who mentioned it’s beneath investigation.
Aerial footage of the crashed aircraft exhibits it within the woods, with a number of items of particles close by. Firetrucks and different emergency autos surrounded the scene.
Three individuals are being evaluated at Cooper College Hospital’s trauma heart 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 capable of present the precise nature of the accidents.
Members of the hospital’s EMS and trauma division have been on the crash web site, she mentioned.
An individual who answered the telephone at Cross Keys Airport on Wednesday mentioned he had no data and referred inquiries to Skydive Cross Keys, a industrial skydiving enterprise situated 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 world with the intention to let emergency autos entry the location.
