Blue Bell Pilot and Passenger in Small Plane Crash in Blairstown, New Jersey, Authorities Say

Authorities say a Blue Bell pilot and his passenger were left with minor injuries after their small plane underwent a forced landing near a Blairstown, New Jersey airport on Friday, resulting in a crash, according to The Warren Reporter.

Pilot Craig S. Levine of Blue Bell and his passenger, Matthew P. Giannini of Harleysville are said to have taken off from Blairstown, New Jersey’s Blairstown Airport in a 1972 Piper fixed-wing single-engine plane just before crashing at the intersection of Sipley Road and Gwinnup Road.

The Blairstown Police Department, the Blairstown Fire Department, and the Blairstown Ambulance Corp. responded to the crash that day at 11:21am. 

According to authorities, Levine and Giannini were brought to Newton Medical Center in Newton, New Jersey with minor injuries.