Two flown to hospital after plane crashes in Somerset Township
Courtesy of Ambulance & Chair EMS
Two patients were flown by medical helicopters to Pittsburgh trauma centers after their plane crashed about 6:15 p.m. Monday in a field off School Road in Somerset Township.
Courtesy of Ambulance & Chair EMS
Emergency crews respond to a field off School Road in Somerset Township Monday evening after a small plane crashed, injuring its two occupants.
Courtesy of Ambulance & Chair EMS
Two medical helicopters landed in a Somerset Township field Monday evening to transport two patients after a small plane crashed in the field.
Courtesy of Ambulance & Chair EMS
Two medical helicopters landed in a Somerset Township field Monday evening to transport two patients after a small plane crashed in the field.
Two people were flown by medical helicopters to Pittsburgh trauma centers Monday evening after their plane crashed in a field in Somerset Township.
State police, fire and EMS crews responded about 6:15 p.m. to the field on the property at 295 School Road, near the Kammerer exit off Interstate 70.
According to Rob Cannon, assistant director of Ambulance & Chair EMS, neighbors in the area called 911 when they saw the plane crash.
“A neighbor said they landed in the field there,” Cannon said. “When they tried to take off again, that’s when it crashed.”
State police have not released the names of the occupants, but said in a news release that the Cessna 150 plane crashed shortly after take-off. They had departed from the Greene County Airport, according to John Strope, with Strope Aircraft Mainenance. Strope said he was working on an aircraft at the airport when the plane carrying a 29-year-old male student and 34-year-old female flight instructor departed.
Strope said the man involved in the crash is the son of the owner of the plane. Strope said the father had been waiting at the airport for them to return when instead he received a phone call from his son informing him that they had crashed.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration’s website, the plane is registered to David Martin of West Mifflin.
The plane’s occupants were conscious but confused when first responders initially made contact with them, Cannon said, and they were transported with nonlife-threatening injuries.
“They were in critical but stable condition,” Cannon said.
One of the neighbors who responded to the plane is a nurse, Cannon said, who helped extricate one of the occupants.
Cannon said Ambulance & Chair had about 10 EMTs and paramedics assisting at the scene, along with firefighters from Ellsworth, Fallowfield and Bentleyville. Cannon said that even though their EMS crews don’t often respond to plane crashes in Washington County, they did a great job caring for the patients.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the incident.