GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Crews responded to the scene of a plane crash near Gettysburg Regional Airport Saturday afternoon. The pilot, an 87-year-old local man, was not injured, said Gettysburg Fire Department Chief Hurshel Shank. The man — whose name has not yet been released — took off from the runway but had engine failure, Cumberland Township Police Chief Don Boehs said. He attempted to make a U-turn when he crashed into trees near the runway, he said. The plane landed nose down about 50 feet off the ground, Shank said. The man called police after the crash with a cell phone he was carrying, Boehs said. The pilot was attempting to fly from Gettysburg to Clearview Airpark in Westminster, Md., to ...
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