The pilot, a 55-year-old man from Canaan, Conn., and the passenger, a 38-year-old man from Plainville, were being treated for minor injuries.
EGREMONT – A pilot and his lone passenger escaped serious injury Tuesday when their 1946 Piper aircraft lost power and crashed just north of the runway at Great Barrington Airport, state police said.
The pilot, a 55-year-old man from Canaan, Conn., and the passenger, a 38-year-old man from Plainville, were being treated for minor injuries at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington, said State Police Sgt. Michael Popovics .
Their names were not being released, he said.
Popovics said the plane lost power and the pilot was trying to make it to the airport for an emergency landing when it apparently came up short at about 6 p.m.
The plane apparently clipped the top of some trees and crashed into a yard, he said.
The accident is being investigated by the state police and the Massachusetts Aeronautics Division of the Department of Transportation.
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