PHOENIX (AP) - Authorities say a pilot and his passenger are critically injured after the crash of a small plane in north Phoenix just east of the Deer Valley Airport.
Phoenix Fire Department officials say the plane aircraft went down around noon Tuesday and went through a fence and lodged into a tree alongside a road leading to the airport.
The two men were extricated from the wreckage and taken to a north Phoenix hospital by ambulance.
Their names and ages aren’t immediately available.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says the pilot of a single-engine Grumman AA-1 reported a mechanical problem shortly after departure from Deer Valley Airport.
He says the pilot indicated he would try to return to the airport, but the plane crashed about a half mile from the runway.
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