Skydiving Plane Goes Off New Jersey Runway and Crashes Into Woods, Sending 15 to Hospital

Skydiving Plane Goes Off New Jersey Runway and Crashes Into Woods, Sending 15 to Hospital
A small skydiving aircraft that went off the end of a runway at Cross Keys Airport in Gloucester County, N.J., on July 2, 2025, in a still from video. WPVI-TV/6ABC via AP
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Fifteen people were taken to the hospital after a skydiving aircraft radioed it was having engine trouble after takeoff and crashed on landing near an airport in southern New Jersey on Wednesday, according to authorities.

The single engine Cessna 208B was carrying 15 people when it crashed at about 5:30 p.m. at the Cross Keys Airport, about 21 miles southeast of Philadelphia, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.