Laurel plane crash leaves pilot injured, mobile homes destroyed in Md.
| MARYLAND CITY, Md.
Police have identified the pilot who was critically injured when his smallplane聽crashed聽in a mobile home community in Maryland City.
State police say 70-year-old Ronald Dixon聽crashed聽his single-engine Beechcraft Musketeer聽plane聽shortly after taking off from Suburban Airport in聽Laurel聽on Thursday morning. Dixon was the only person on board, and no one else was hurt. A spokeswoman says Dixon remains in critical condition at Shock Trauma.
Police say witnesses told them Dixon's聽plane聽was flying low and hit a tree before聽crashing聽to the ground, where it damaged two homes.
Police are continuing to investigate the聽crash, and the National Transportation Safety Board has also sent investigators to the scene.
