UPDATE: New Details Emerge On Plane Crash In New Jersey | JP
Yesterday, a “mass casualty incident” was issued by New Jersey emergency authorities after a plane crashed in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
New details have emerged that there are no reported casualties in the crash, but several have been sent to the hospital with serious injuries.
A total of 15 people were onboard the plane, and all 15 are seeking medical attention.
NBC News provided an update on details of teh crash:
Fifteen people were taken to a hospital when a skydiving aircraft went off a runway and crashed in the woods near an airport in southern New Jersey on Wednesday evening, according to authorities.
The incident at the Cross Keys Airport, about 21 miles southeast of Philadelphia, involved a Cessna 208B carrying 15 people, according to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson, who said it’s under investigation.
Aerial footage of the crashed plane shows it in the woods, with several pieces of debris nearby. Firetrucks and other emergency vehicles surrounded the scene.
Three people are being evaluated at Cooper University Hospital’s trauma center in Camden, New Jersey, and eight people with less severe injuries are being treated in its emergency department, Wendy A. Marano, a spokesperson for the hospital, said. Four other patients also with “minimal injuries” are waiting for further evaluation, she said. She wasn’t able to provide the exact nature of the injuries.
Members of the hospital’s EMS and trauma department were at the crash site, she said.
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At least five people were rushed to the hospital after a single-engine plane went down on Wednesday in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
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CBS News reported that some of the victims of the crash were covered in jet fuel:
All 15 people who were on a skydiving aircraft were being treated for injuries after the small plane crashed at Cross Keys Airport in Williamstown, New Jersey, on Wednesday, according to a hospital spokesperson.
Wendy Marano, of Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., said three were transported to Cooper’s trauma center, eight were treated in Cooper’s emergency department with less serious injuries, and four who had minor injuries were brought to a waiting room to be reunited with their families.
Just before 5:30 p.m., crews were dispatched for a downed aircraft at the airport on North Tuckahoe Road, said Andrew Halter, who is with the Gloucester County Office of Emergency Management. He said emergency responders declared a mass casualty incident after they arrived.
Several of the people injured were covered in jet fuel after the crash, Halter said.
Halter pointed out that emergency crews did a mass casualty training exercise at Cross Keys Airport recently, and he believes that played a role in the response.