A pilot walked away from a plane crash on Thursday with only minor injuries, according to the Maine Department of Public Safety.
State police were alerted to a crash in the woods near the intersection of North Road and Sutton Hill Road in Limington, close to the Limington-Harmon Airport, at around 12:30 p.m.
“When the Trooper arrived on scene she could observe the bright yellow plane nose-down into the ground in the woods,” department spokesperson Shannon Moss said. “The pilot who was walking around the scene identified himself as 62-year-old Bradley Marston of Windham.”
Marston had just taken off from the Limington Airport when the engine failed and the plane crashed less than a mile west of the airport, according to Moss.
Marston was eventually transported to a hospital for minor injuries after a medical evaluation.
“The Maine State Police and the Maine Forest Service secured the scene until the Federal Aviation Administration arrived to process the scene,” Moss said.