Fifteen folks had been taken to a hospital when a skydiving plane went off a runway and crashed within the woods close to an airport in southern New Jersey on Wednesday (July 2, 2025) night, in accordance to authorities.
The incident on the Cross Keys Airport, about 21 miles (34 kilometers) southeast of Philadelphia, concerned a Cessna 208B carrying 15 folks, in accordance to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson, who mentioned it’s beneath investigation.
Aerial footage of the crashed plane reveals it within the woods, with a number of items of particles close by. Firetrucks and different emergency autos surrounded the scene.
Three persons are being evaluated at Cooper University Hospital’s trauma heart in Camden, New Jersey, and eight folks with much less extreme accidents are being handled in its emergency division, Wendy A. Marano, a spokesperson for the hospital, mentioned. Four different sufferers additionally with “minimal injuries” are ready for additional analysis, she mentioned. She wasn’t ready to present the precise nature of the accidents.
Members of the hospital’s EMS and trauma division had been on the crash website, she mentioned.
An individual who answered the cellphone at Cross Keys Airport on Wednesday mentioned he had no info and referred questions to Skydive Cross Keys, a industrial skydiving enterprise on the airport. Skydive Cross Keys did not instantly reply to an electronic mail from The Associated Press requesting remark.
The National Transportation Safety Board mentioned in a put up on the social platform X that it’s investigating the crash.
Gloucester County Emergency Management warned the general public on its Facebook web page to keep away from the realm so as to let emergency autos entry the positioning.
Gov. Phil Murphy mentioned on X that he had been briefed on the crash and that there had been “no fatalities at this time.”
