Good Samaritans saved two people from Alabama’s Mobile Bay after a plane crash sent both into the drink Friday.

The single-engine plane went down at 7:30 a.m., crashing into the bay near the city’s industrial canal, the Mobile Police Department said, according to Mobile Fox affiliate WALA-TV. 

The two people escaped the plane and sat on it, waiting for help to arrive, the Coast Guard told Mobile CBS affiliate WKRG-TV.

Neither person was injured, and boats were quick to respond to the scene following an alert from the U.S. Coast Guard.

A boat and crew from Gulf Offshore Logistics working on a Weeks Marine project dredging a ship channel in Mobile were the first to get there, a Weeks Marine spokesperson told Mobile NBC affiliate WPMI-TV.

Then a second boat came and took them back to shore. The pilot, who didn’t provide his name, told WKRG that the plane was unsalvageable due to salt water damaging the engine and that he would have to buy a new one.

Andrew Dees, the registered owner of the plane, told WPMI that “all was well,” though the station didn’t say whether he was piloting the aircraft when it went down.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident, the agency said in a statement on its website. 

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