By News18
A skydiving aircraft went off a runway and crashed in the woods near an airport in southern New Jersey. At least 15 people were injured in the incident, which happened on Wednesday evening (local time).
The Associated Press quoted a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson as saying that the incident happened at the Cross Keys Airport, about 21 miles (34 kilometers) southeast of Philadelphia.
The plane was a Cessna 208B, and there were 15 people onboard at the time of the accident.
AP said three people were being treated at Cooper University Hospital鈥檚 trauma center in Camden, New Jersey.
Eight others, with less severe injuries, were being treated at the emergency department of the same hospital.
Four other patients with 鈥渕inimal injuries鈥 were waiting for further evaluation.
Members of the hospital鈥檚 EMS and trauma department were at the crash site.
The area is notably a popular skydiving destination with the 鈥渓argest skydiving centre in the region鈥 located just two minutes away from the airport, the New York Post stated.
Meanwhile, the reason behind the crash was yet not known, and an investigation had been initiated.
In a similar incident, the Federal Aviation Administration was investigating a report of smoke in an airplane bathroom, which led to an emergency landing in St. Louis, Missouri, and an evacuation on the runway Tuesday, CNN reported.
United Express flight 4423, operated by GoJet Airlines, had just taken off from St. Louis Lambert International Airport at 6.40 am, headed to Chicago, when 鈥渢he crew reported a lavatory smoke warning,鈥 the report quoted a GoJet spokesperson as saying.
Separately, two people died and 43 were missing after a ferry carrying 65 people sank near the Indonesian island of Bali.
The boat KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank almost half an hour after leaving East Java鈥檚 Ketapang port late on Wednesday, it was known.
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