Several injured as Beechcraft crashes into parking lot

A Beechcraft Bonanza crashed in a village in Pennsylvania, United States, on Sunday for still unknown reasons. Five people were injured.

The Beechcraft A36 Bonanza, registration N347M, had taken off from Lancaster Airport shortly before the incident. What exactly happened next is still unclear. A few hundred meters from the airfield, the aircraft crashed right next to a retirement home. A pilot and four passengers were on board the Beechcraft. They have been taken to nearby hospitals.

A video is visible here.

According to the airport’s air traffic control, the pilot indicated during departure that one of the doors was open and they therefore had to return for landing. Only a few seconds later, the plane crashed. Calls from the tower to the pilot to climb were in vain. No one on the ground was injured. However, several cars parked at the crash site were destroyed.

Learjet

It is the second crash in Pennsylvania in a month and a half. On January 31, a Learjet 55, registration XA-UCI, crashed in Philadelphia. Like the Beechcraft, the aircraft had taken off from a nearby airfield less than a minute before the accident. None of the occupants, including an 11-year-old girl, survived the incident. A fatality also occurred on the ground. 24 others were injured.