Three people reportely died and two others were injured when a small plane transporting a medical patient crashed late Monday in the Chicago area.
The Piper Navajo aircraft crashed about 10:50 p.m. in Riverwoods Illinois, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory told the Lake County News-Sun (http://bit.ly/v0zqv4).
Firefighters quickly extinguished a small fire they found upon arrival and found two of the five people in the plane dead at the scene, according to Battalion Chief Scott Knesley of the Lincolnshire Riverwoods Fire Protection District. See photos of firefighters at the crash scene at http://olkee.smugmug.com.
The victims were taken to area hospitals. Their conditions were not known early Tuesday.
On board the flight were the pilot, a pilot-in-training, a flight paramedic, a patient with an undisclosed medical issue and his wife, according to Ron Schaberg, the president and owner of Trans North Aviation Limited, which owned the plane. A source told the newspaper that the pilot and the patient’s wife died in the crash and the patient died on the way to the hospital.
