Dispatchers reported the crash around 3:30 p.m. All five people aboard the plane were hospitalized, officials said.
A single-engine airplane with five people on board crashed Sunday afternoon in a parking lot of a retirement community near a small airport in suburban Pennsylvania, officials said.The crash happened around 3:30 p.m. just south of Lancaster Airport in Manheim Township, according to police. Five people were taken to the hospital, officials said at a 6:15 press conference.
Photos and a video from a scene showed a plane in flames in the parking lot at Brethren Village Retirement Community in Manheim Township.The plane departed from Lancaster Airport, just north of the crash site, at 3:26 p.m. ET and was headed toward Springfield, Ohio,“It was pretty high, but then it started veering left, and suddenly it nose-dived sideways while continuing to turn left,” Brian Pipkin told CNN.
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