India, April 2 -- A small single-engine plane crashed in a Northeast Philadelphia park on Wednesday afternoon, sending two people to the hospital. The incident unfolded near Friends of Fluehr Park on Grant and Torresdale avenues shortly before 4pm drawing firefighters, police and hazmat crews to the scene.

According to Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Jeffrey Thompson as cited by NBC, firefighters reached the crash site and rescued both the pilot and the passenger from the plane. They were taken to the hospital and although their exact condition is not known, both were alert and conscious at the time.

One of the two people injured in the crash is an off-duty Philadelphia police officer, though it is not yet clear whether the officer was t...