Pittsburgh,PA : 2 injured when small plane crashes in Beaver County on September, Saturday 16th 2017

Two people were injured when a two-seat airplane crashed Saturday afternoon in Beaver County.

The crash occurred about 4:50 p.m. in the 200 block of McKenzie Road in Hanover, county emergency officials said.

A 23-year-old Hookstown man and a 24-year-old woman from Arlington, Va., were on board when the Piper J3C-65 crashed into a tree on private property, Pennsylvania State Police said.

They both were taken to Allegheny General Hospital with moderate but non-life threatening injures, according to police.

At the crash site, the small, yellow aircraft was positioned nose-down in the ground, and its tail was held up by tree limbs.

State police and the Federal Aviation Administration were investigating, officials said.


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2 injured when small plane crashes in Beaver County