A small single-engine plane crashed in Northeast Philadelphia's Friends of Fluehr Park on Wednesday afternoon, sending two people to the hospital.
The incident unfolded near Grant and Torresdale avenues shortly before 4pm, drawing firefighters, police, and hazmat crews to the scene.
According to Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Jeffrey Thompson, firefighters rescued both the pilot and the passenger from the plane, who were taken to the hospital and were alert and conscious at the time.
One of the two people injured in the crash is an off-duty Philadelphia police officer, though it is not yet clear whether the officer was the pilot or the passenger.
The plane, a single-engine Piper PA-28 made in 2021, was being used for training by Fly Legacy Aviation, a flight school in Philadelphia.
The crash site is about five miles from the site of a deadly crash in 2025, which killed eight people and injured two dozen others.
