Five people were hospitalized after a small plane skidded off the runway at an Oregon airport and crashed into the water Monday morning, officials said.
The private plane sped off the tarmac at the Southwest Oregon Regional Airport in North Bend around 6:12 a.m. and ended up about 100 feet from shore in Coos Bay, an airport spokesperson told the Register Guard.
All four passengers and a crew member were rescued and rushed to an area hospital in unknown conditions.
Emergency response teams, including the Aircraft Rescue and Firefighter Team, Coos Bay and North Bend Fire Departments, North Bend Police Department, and the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, helped retrieve the aircraft.
Commercial air traffic on the airport’s main runway was shut down as authorities responded to the scene.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.