A plane crashed at a campground in Plymouth on Monday morning and the pilot has been taken to the hospital.
Police said they received a 911 call at 10:58 a.m. reporting that a plane had crashed at Gentile's Campground, in the Terryville part of Plymouth.
In a conversation with air traffic control captured on LiveATC.net, the woman in the plane said she was a student pilot on a solo flight and that she was having engine trouble.
"I am a student pilot solo and I am panicking," she told the air traffic controller.
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The controller directed the student pilot to a grass strip runway in Plymouth, but the plane went down in the trees short of the runway.
Witnesses said the pilot was helped from the downed plane by a maintenance worker at the campground.
The pilot was injured and was taken to a hospital.
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The FAA said the plane is a single-engine Cessna 172 and the pilot was the only person onboard.
The plane is registered to a holding company in Texas. According to Flight Aware, the plane took off from an airport in Poughkeepsie, New York at 10:17 a.m.
The FAA is investigating.
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