One man was left injured following a weekend plane crash in Washington County.
At approximately 7:40 p.m. on Saturday, June 8, emergency personnel responded to calls of a plane crash in residential Tennille.
The plane touched down in the backyard of a home on Carver Street.
The pilot was the sole occupant of the aircraft. He was transported to a trauma center in Augusta with apparent non-life threatening abrasions.
No others were injured in the incident.
The plane was a single-engine Just Aircraft 30 SuperStol – amateur-built – capable of flying at a top speed of 120 mph with a pilot and one passenger.
As the case with any aircraft incident, the National Safety Transportation Board and Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the crash.
