A pilot was injured when a plane crashed at the Holly Hill Airport on Wednesday.
“Preliminary information indicates the crash occurred after takeoff. There was one person on board,” National Transportation Safety Board spokesperson Jennifer Gabris said Thursday.
The pilot of the Eipper Formance Inc. MXII aircraft was a 45-year-old Orem, Utah man. The aircraft, which is registered in Charleston, is a fixed-wing, single-engine plane.
The crash occurred at approximately 7 p.m., according to a Holly Hill police incident report.
The plane appeared to have crashed into the hangar, damaging both the building and the plane. The officer saw some blood and a bloodied paper towel on the ground in front of the plane, the report states.
The pilot was taken toward an area hospital in a private vehicle. The driver had to pull over in a Dollar General parking lot in Berkeley County.
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The injured pilot was having difficulty breathing, an emergency dispatcher said.
Berkeley County EMS arrived at the store and transported the pilot to Trident Regional Medical Center in North Charleston.
Officials were unaware of the extent of the pilot’s injuries.
Orangeburg County Emergency Services Director Billy Staley said his agency responded to the scene and verified that both the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration were contacted.
The NTSB and the FAA are investigating the crash.
This is the second plane crash at the Holly Hill Airport in the past two years.
A Flightstar II crashed there on Feb. 24, 2022.
Emergency crews extricated the pilot from the plane. The pilot was seriously injured, according to NTSB records.
Six planes have crashed in Holly Hill since 1979, according to NTSB records.
In a Sept. 10, 1998 incident, a Glasair SH2 experimental plane crashed on fairway 3 at the Holly Hill Golf Course, about a quarter-mile from the Holly Hill Airport.
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