A small plane with four people on board crashed on the back side of the Marathon airport, in a wooded area.
Preliminary reports are two of the four people are being classified as “trauma alerts” and will be airlifted by Monroe County’s Trauma Star helicopter to a Miami hospital.
The plane was reported to have caught fire, but the fire was extinguished quickly. There should be no impact on air traffic into and out of the airport.
No further information is available at this time. The Florida Highway Patrol is responding to investigate.
