One Dead After A Small Plane Crash in Montgomery County
LAYTONSVILLE, Md. (WJZ)-- The feds are investigating after a one person died in a small plane crash in Montgomery County Tuesday.
The plane crashed less than a mile from a small local airport. Both the NTSB and the FAA were on the scene in laytonsville leading the investigation.
"It was a single engine, small plane, was on fire. It crash landed,"said Pete Piringer of the Montgomery County Fire Department.
Firefighters from both Montgomery and Howard Counties battled back flames as they searched for any survivors. Assemble crews came to do a systematic search in case someone was ejected from the plane on impact. No survivors were found.
The plane crashed into a field on the property of a landscaping company. A mile from the Davis airport.
The pilot inside the plane did not survive the wreck. Davis airport is a public use airport with one runway, typically seeing about a dozen planes a day according to records.
"It's popular among the local community, but it is relatively small," said Piringer.
Now federal investigators will try to figure out what went wrong. The person in the plane who died has not yet been identified. Investigators believe the plane crashed shortly after it took off from Davis Airfield.
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