Pilot, co pilot in hospital as small plane crashes on Caribbean island of St. Vincent
(AP) Authorities in St. Vincent and the Grenadines say a small plane crashed on the island Monday but that both people on board have survived.
The Cessna 337 was en route from St. Lucia when it crash landed near an airstrip on in northern St. Vincent. A statement from the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force said the pilot and co-pilot were hospitalized.
The statement identified the pilot as Wayne McDiarmed of St. Lucia and the co-pilot as Marvin Fabian Peka of Grenada. Details on their injuries were not disclosed.
The Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority sent two investigators to the crash site to investigate the cause
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