The other is a retired scientist
On Monday, Jeffry P. Barnett, 57, of Glen Burnie, and Thomas L. Cline, 82, of Silver Spring, were being treated for their injuries at University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
Cline, who previously worked at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, was in critical condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Barnett, chief of transportation and community programs for the Charles County government, was in fair condition.
"Jeff is a valuable and dedicated employee with the county and we wish him a speedy recovery," Charles County Commisioner President Peter Murphy said in a statement.
Barnett was piloting a 1970 Grumman American AA-1 when it crashed shortly after taking off at about 2 p.m. Sunday from Tipton Airport. Cline was his passenger.
Federal investigators have yet to determine what caused the plane to crash about a half mile from the end of the runway.
The National Transportation Safety Board expects to release a preliminary report within the next seven to 10 days, spokesman Eric Weiss said.
Investigators will spend the coming days documenting the wreckage, gathering witness accounts, listening to air traffic control tapes and looking at weather conditions as they try to determine what caused the crash, Weiss said.
The Federal Aviation Administration is assisting with the investigation.
The NTSB then will work on a factual report, Weiss said, which allows the agency to gather all of the facts and determine a probable cause. That could take up to a year, he said.
The planned destination of the plane was still unknown Monday afternoon, Weiss said.
The crash site is about a quarter mile from Bald Eagle Drive and the Patuxent Research Refuge.
The plane, registered to Barnett, Cline and a third party, was upside-down when it was found in the woods. Nobody on the ground was injured.
Barnett and Cline were extricated from the wreckage within 50 minutes and flown by helicopter to Shock Trauma. Both were conscious and speaking with emergency personnel, said Anne Arundel County fire department spokesman Capt. Michael Pfaltzgraff.
Regis#: N6116L
Aircraft Make: GRUMMAN
Aircraft Model: AA1
Event Type: Accident
Highest Injury: Serious
Damage: Unknown
City: ODENTON
State: Maryland
Flight Phase: UNKNOWN (UNK)
FAA Flight Standards District Office: FAA Baltimore FSDO-07
AIRCRAFT SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF, CRASHED AND FLIPPED OVER INTO A WOODED AREA OFF THE DEPARTURE END OF THE RUNWAY, TIPTON AIRPORT, ODENTON, MD
A small plane flies over the area of woods at the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge where another small plane crashed after takeoff from Tipton Airport in Laurel.
(By Joshua McKerrow / Baltimore Sun Media Group /February 8, 2015)
Anne Arundel County Fire Department spokesman Capt. Michael Pfaltzgraff briefs the media Sunday after a plane crashed near Fort George G. Meade.
(Tim Pratt/ Baltimore Sun Media Group /February 8, 2015)
Anne Arundel County fire officials say a small plane has crashed into the woods near Tipton Airport south of Fort Meade.
Officials say the plane crashed into the trees off of Bald Eagle Drive at around 2 p.m.
Two people were on board. A fire department spokesman says both victims are conscious, but one of them was trapped in the wreckage.
That victim has now been freed.
Both victims have been flown by helicopter to Shock Trauma.
FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen tells WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and WBAL-TV that the single-engine 1970 Grumman American AA-1 aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from Runway 28 at Tipton Airport.
She says the aircraft went down about one-half-of-a-mile from the end of the runway.
The FAA and NTSB will investigate..
Anne Arundel County Fire Department spokesman Capt. Michael Pfaltzgraff told reporters that crews arriving in the area found two men, one 57-years-old and the other 82-years old, trapped in the wreckage, according to Pfaltzgraff.
Pfaltzgraff said it took the crews about 50 minutes to free the men from the plane. Authorities earlier said the plane had ended up on its side.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation, they added.
This evening, Maryland State Police identified the two men aboard the plane as the pilot, 57-year-old Jeffrey Barnett of Glen Burnie, and the passenger, 82-year-old Thomas Cline of Silver Spring. Barnett, Cline and a third party own the plane.
Two men were injured, but no one on the ground was hurt Sunday afternoon when a small plane crashed soon after take-off from Tipton Airport in Fort Meade MD .
One of the men injured is believed to be in his fifties and the other in his eighties. Both men were flown by Maryland State Police helicopter to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
Maryland State Police responded to Bald Eagle Drive and Combat Drive, in Ft. Meade, for the report of a plane crash. On location they found a single-engine plane on its top in a wooded area. The two men injured were the only people on-board the plane.
Preliminary information indicates the plane had just taken off from Tipton Airport. The crash is said to have occurred a few hundred yards from the airstrip.
State Police investigators are on the scene gathering additional information.
Federal aviation officials have been notified of the crash.
Source: http://www.myfoxdc.com
Two men who were injured in the crash were flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, said a spokesmen for the Anne Arundel County fire department.
One man is approximately 55 years old and the other is possibly 80, said Capt. Michael Pfaltzgraff. He said both men had serious but not life-threatening injuries.
Pfaltzgraff said it took 50 minutes to free the pair from the aircraft, which went down at 1:55 p.m. in the 7500 block of General Aviation Drive, a wooded area in Laurel.
Original post at 3:12 p.m.
A small plane crashed at the Tipton Airport on Sunday afternoon injuring two people, authorities said.
A Grumman American AA-1 aircraft crashed as it took off from the airport, said a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman.
FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the plane went down about a half mile from the end of the runway around 2 p.m. Two people were on board, she said.
A spokesman for Anne Arundel County police tweeted that two people were conscious and alert.
The crash is near Bald Eagle Drive and Combat Road, Maryland State Police said.
Anne Arundel County Fire Department said the two people were trapped inside the plane, however authorities said further details were not available.
Bergen said the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash. She said the agency will release the plane’s registration after local authorities release the names and conditions of two people on board.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com
FORT MEADE, Md. —A small plane crashed Sunday afternoon at Tipton Airport.
Authorities said the crash happened about 2 p.m.
Officials said a Grumman AA-1 aircraft went down shortly after taking off from Runway 28 and crashed about a half mile from the end of the runway.
Two people were aboard the plane. Both of them were conscious and alert.
Stay with WBAL-TV and WBALTV.com for further details.
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