A small plane on approach to a Pennsylvania airport landed instead in a shallow section of the Susquehanna River a few miles from the Three Mile Island nuclear power station.
Susquehanna Regional Airport Authority executive director Tim Edwards said the pilot and the single-engine plane’s lone passenger were taken to a hospital for treatment. The Federal Aviation Administration says the two on board exited the Piper PA-46 onto a wing.
Edwards says the crash occurred on the evening of Oct. 4, about 2 miles upstream from the Three Mile Island station.
The plane was approaching Harrisburg International Airport when it somehow lost engine power and the pilots had to make an emergency landing.
Edwards said he has no idea where the plane was coming from.
A video taken by an individual in the area shows the plane hours after the crash still floating in the water, about 200 feet from shore.
Four Plane Crashes in the Last Three Days
Four Killed in Cargo Plane Crash Landing in Ukraine
At least four crew were killed on Oct. 4, when a Ukrainian Antonov-12 cargo airplane made an emergency landing near the western airport of Lviv after disappearing from radar, officials said.
The Soviet-designed four-engine plane vanished from radar at 7:10 a.m. (local time) when it was 13.7 km (8.5 miles) from the airport, the emergency service said in a statement.
The landing was made ‘in connection with the end of the fuel’, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Kryklii said later on Facebook, adding that the plane had been flying to Lviv from Spain.
The crew had scheduled to refuel in Lviv, Ukraine’s Unian news agency reported.
3 Dead After Small Plane Crashed Near Michigan Airport
Three people died and three others were injured when a single-engine plane heading from Indianapolis crashed on the morning of Oct. 3 near Capital Region International Airport in mid-Michigan, authorities said.
The six-passenger plane was on its way to Lansing-area airport when it went down about 9 a.m.
“I know that it was coming in on the approach and that’s when something went wrong,” airport spokesman Spencer Flynn said.
The plane was at capacity and included a pilot and co-pilot, said Clinton County Sheriff Larry Jerue. Names of those onboard weren’t immediately released.
7 Dead After B-17 World War II-era Plane Crashed
A B-17 World War II-era plane carrying 13 people crashed and burned after experiencing mechanical trouble on takeoff on the morning of Oct. 2.
There were 10 passengers and three crew members aboard the World War II-era bomber as it crashed at Bradley International Airport, north of Hartford, officials said.
Seven people were killed, according to the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection.
The flight engineer Mitchell Melton, 34, of Dalhart, Texas, survived with injuries. Five other passengers on the plane were injured along with Andrew Sullivan, 28, an airport employee who was on the ground near the site of the accident.
Bridgeport Hospital officials said that one survivor who arrived in serious condition was upgraded Thursday to fair condition and that two others there were still in fair condition. All three suffered burns and broken bones.
NTD staff and Reuters contributed to this report.
