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Groton, Connecticut - Tuesday, August 18, 2020: No one was injured after a small plane crashed into an occupied house Monday night at 243 Ring Avenue in Groton. Police said the airplane’s two occupants were able to self-extricate themselves and were transported by ambulance to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London. Kenneth Johnson, 73, the owner of the house who was inside the house at the time of the crash, was not injured. lessGroton, Connecticut - Tuesday, August 18, 2020: No one was injured after a small plane crashed into an occupied house Monday night at 243 Ring Avenue in Groton. Police said the airplane’s two occupants were ... morePhoto: Peter Hvizdak, Hearst Connecticut Media
GROTON — Call it what you want, but no one died, or even was seriously hurt, at Ken Johnson’s house on Ring Drive at Donna Drive Monday night — even with that twin-engine Piper that crashed into his living room.
There wasn’t even a fire.
Johnson just calls that “pure luck” — but his daughter, Tammy de la Cruz, and several neighbors who saw it Monday night or in the hours since have all offered another theory.
“It’s a miracle,” said de la Cruz, who is married to state Rep. Joe de la Cruz, D-Groton, sitting in a chair across Ring Drive from the house Tuesday morning. “I said to my dad, ‘There’s an angel that’s on your shoulder,’” she said.
Police said the airplane’s two occupants were able to self-extricate themselves and were transported by ambulance to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London. A man inside the house was not injured, police said.
The crash happened about 2.5 miles from the Groton/New London Airport.
The flight had been scheduled to take off from Augusta, Maine at 8:37 p.m. Monday and land at Groton-New London Airport at 10:27 p.m. Monday, a 258-mile trip, according to flight plan information posted at FlightAware.com.
The plane, owned by Upgrade Inc., earlier had flown from Groton-New London to Bangor, Maine, leaving Groton at 5:09 p.m. and arriving in Bangor at 7:17 p.m., according to the website.
Upgrade could not immediately be contacted and the two occupants of the plane, said by neighbors at the scene to be a pilot and a flying student, had not been identified as of Tuesday afternoon, according to Groton police.
The plane was approaching the airport when it crashed, according to the Connecticut Airport Authority, which oversees operations at the airport and is helping to investigate the accident. Officials did not say where the aircraft was coming from.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday afternoon it is investigating the crash of a Piper PA34 into the house.
“Investigators are not traveling to the scene. Wreckage is being removed to secure location for further examination,” it said.
Shortly after 10:30 p.m., the Groton Emergency Communications Center received multiple calls reporting a plane crash on Ring Drive at Donna Drive in Groton.
The small aircraft struck an occupied residence on Ring Drive, police said.
“At this time, there are no reports of fatalities or life-threatening injuries either on the ground or with the air crew,” police said.
Police said there was no structure fire as a result of the crash, but area homes were evacuated as a precautionary measure while fire crews and EMS attended to the scene.
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