A small plane crashed in Ned Brown Preserve, popularly known as Busse Woods, Friday evening shortly after taking off from O’Hare International Airport, according to Cook County Forest Preserve officials.
The pilot was able to walk away from the crash and was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries, officials said.
No one else was on board the twin-engine Beechcraft King Air 200 when it went down in the southeastern section of Busse Woods near the Main Dam about 7:15 p.m, officials said.
It was not immediately known why the plane crashed.
Forest Preserves of Cook County police and other local emergency personnel were on the scene Friday night, and the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating.
CRASH ALERT: #ElkGroveVillage - A King Air plane has crash landed in Busse Woods, just west of Arlington Heights Road, between Elk Grove Blvd. and Landmeier. Reports unconfirmed that pilot, carrying an unknown cargo, was OK. O'Hare Fire, Chicago Police, EG Fire, Police on scene. pic.twitter.com/WDOOWLnURw
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