Single-Engine Plane Crashes After Departing Livermore Airport: Reports

LIVERMORE, CA — A single-person plane crashed into a storage facility about a mile away from the Livermore Municipal Airport Saturday evening, according to multiple reports.

The Pleasanton-Livermore Fire Department said that the plane, a single-engine Beechcraft BE35, crashed into the commercial facility just east of Isabel Avenue just before 5 p.m. Saturday.

The storage facility was not harmed, but the airline was severely damaged, according to several reports. Emergency crews needed to extricate the pilot from the plane, and he was taken to a local hospital with unknown injuries, airport Interim Manager Michael Musca told The San Francisco Chronicle. No other passengers were inside the plane, according to KRON4.

The pilot is at Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley with non-life threatening injuries, according to The Livermore Vine.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Board are investigating the crash, KTVU reported.