A small plane crashed shortly after take off from an Anne Arundel County airport Thursday morning.
The Beechcraft BE 23 clipped one home and crashed into another in a residential mobile home park on S. Bruce Street in Maryland City, Md., near the Baltimore-Washington Parkway around 10 a.m.
The plane crashed shortly after departure from Suburban Airpark in Laurel, the FAA confirmed. Witnesses said it appeared to be flying too low and clipped a tree before crashing, according to Maryland State Police.
Two men who saw the plane crash rushed to the scene and pulled the pilot, 70-year-old Ronald H. Dixon, out of the wreckage, News4's Chris Gordon reported.
Anne Arundel County Fire Chief Keith Swindle said Dixon was conscious and alert during transport to University of Maryland Shock Trauma in Baltimore. Dixon, who was alone in the plane, suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
There are no reports of injuries on the ground.
A trench was dug around the mobile home for possible fuel leakage, but Swindle said the spill from the plane has been sustained and mitigated. There are no hazards in the area, which remained closed as of 3 p.m.
The FAA is sending inspectors to the scene and will arrange to have the plane removed for investigation. The NTSB has also been called to the scene to investigate the cause of the crash.
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