A pilot for a cargo plane service was hospitalized after crashing after takeoff in New Hampshire Friday.

The plane crashed about 70 feet from a single-family house. Wiggins Airways Flight 1046 left Manchester Boston Regional Airport in New Hampshire, headed for Presque Isle International Airport in Maine at around 7:10 a.m., according to flight tracking website FlightAware.

The twin-engine turbo propeller Beechcraft 99 plane crashed in a residential neighborhood about 20 minutes later, the Federal Aviation Administration said. 

The injured pilot, unnamed by authorities, was able to call 911 from the wreckage and was pulled out of the cockpit and taken to a hospital in an ambulance. The plane, which didn’t catch fire when it crashed, came within 70 feet of a house.

“Right on where the lawn of this residence met the tree line of the woods, so it was very, very close. … He ought to play the lottery, for sure. … a lot of things could have gone wrong, further than the aircraft crashing itself, ” Londonderry Fire Department Chief Bo Butler said, according to the Boston Herald.

The homeowner, Eddie Saktanaset, told the New Hampshire Union Leader that he heard “a loud thump and trees falling, cracking…. We weren’t sure if it was lightning.”

The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of the crash.

Wiggins Airways, which operates but does not own the plane, told WBZ-TV that it is cooperating with authorities.

• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.