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Pilot miraculously avoids house, survives plane crash without single scratch

Pilot swiftly avoids house before his plane crashed

By GH Web Desk |
An aircraft crashed in Hampton on its way to Hampton Airfield.
An aircraft crashed in Hampton on its way to Hampton Airfield.

A small aircraft, en route to Hampton Airfield crashed in Hampton on February 11, barely avoiding a nearby house after dangerously coming close to it.

Hampton Deputy Fire Chief Nathan Denio gave a statement to People, saying, "We were dispatched to a small aircraft that had crashed into a wooded area off of Reddington Landing in Hampton."

"When we arrived on scene, there was a single plane on the ground amongst some trees. The pilot was walking about, so he self-extracted from the plane. He was uninjured," he continued.

According to Denio, EMTs checked on pilot Dave Lennon, but he chose not to go to the hospital.

Lennon, who happened to be the only passenger on the plane, shared that he had flown through the airspace numerous times before the accident.

Talking to the local station NBC10 Boston, the pilot shared, "I knew about a half a second before I crashed that I couldn't recover it."

"I just tried to stay with it 100%, and I'm just fortunate that I didn't hit anything else and I walked out without a scratch, basically."

Unfortunately, the aircraft, which he has owned for three decades, came down in a wooded area, nearly missing a nearby house.