Plane crashes near Manassas Airport
{John Boal/ News & Messenger}
Emergency responders prepare to leave the site of a plane crash near Manassas Regional Airport that send two adults to a hospital.
Two Herndon men were seriously injured when their small plane crashed into a wooded area near the Manassas Regional Airport on Friday afternoon.
The two men had taken off from the airport just before 5 p.m. when the plane began experiencing trouble, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller.
The pilot tried to return to the airport but lost altitude and crashed about a half mile from the airport's south runway.
Initial reports from the scene described one of the men as being in critical condition and the other with injuries that appeared to be non life-threatening.
Both men were flown to Inova Fairfax Hospital, said Geller.
Police roped off the rural Bristow neighborhood near the crash, just off Lucasville Road and Moor Green Drive.
Prince William, Manassas and volunteer rescue officials were awaiting the arrival of investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board to take over the investigation, said Geller.
Since 1984, at least 18 people have been killed in crashes near the airport .
n March 21, 2001: A Piper Warrior Arrow Four crashed one mile south of the runway as the pilot approached the airport. The pilot was killed.
n April 17, 2001: A single-engine Piper Arrow crashed when an air traffic controller failed to follow procedure. The pilot was killed.
n Nov. 10, 2000: A PA-28 Piper Cherokee that left Silver Spring on en route to Greenville, S.C., crashed in the Bull Run Mountains. The pilot was killed.
n May 19, 1998: A Sukhoi Su-29 crashes during acrobatic maneuvers at the seventh annual DARE Air Show at the airport. The pilot was killed.
n Jan. 26, 1992: A four-passenger V35-B Beech crashes near an airport runway. The pilot, alone in the plane, was killed instantly.
n Oct. 25, 1989: A Beechcraft on a personal flight crashes in the Nokesville area, one mile from the airport. One person was killed, another injured.
n March 11, 1989: A Beech A60 on a corporate flight crashes at the airport. Five are killed.
n April 5, 1988: A Piper PA-28 crashes at the airport. Four people are killed.
n March 5, 1984: A Piper PA-24 crashes on airport grounds, three miles from the airport. Three are killed.
Staff writer Uriah A. Kiser can be reached at 703-878-8065. Staff writer Keith Walker contributed to this report.
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