Two people were sent to the hospital after a small plane they were flying swerved off an Arizona airport runway and plowed into a nearby home Tuesday morning.
The Cessna T-41B plane “veered off the runway” at the Sun Valley-Bison-Fort Mohave Airport and crashed right into a home’s garage in Fort Mohave just before noon, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
An image of the crash showed the single-engine plane’s nose smashed through the side of the garage.
No residents were home at the time of the catastrophe, but the two people steering the small aircraft suffered injuries and had to be hospitalized, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said.
It is unclear the extent of those injuries.
The damaged property is on the 5000 block of the aptly-named Taxi Way, a street that runs adjacent to the 100-acre airport.
Some locals jokingly speculated that the meandering pilot “was trying to use the wrong taxi way” when they crashed.
“It ain’t called Taxi Way for nothin’,” one woman teased on Facebook.
The sheriff’s office turned its investigation over to the FAA.
In early March, a Piper PA-28 — another single-engine aircraft — clipped the roof of a home in Phoenix, before it nose-dived into a neighboring yard.
The plane, manned by a flight instructor and their student, suffered a mechanical failure and crashed while attempting to return to Deer Valley Airport, according to the FAA.
When it toppled off the roof, the aircraft landed vertically in the backyard, wedged right between a pool and a portion of the home where a baby nursery is located.
Three people — the duo inside the plane and one resident — were treated at a local hospital.
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