TRUCKEE, Calif. -- A light plane crashed Friday morning at the Truckee-Tahoe airport, killing one of two Grass Valley, Calif.-area people on board, according to airport officials.
The two-seat Globe Swift plane, made in the 1940s, crashed just after 11 a.m. as it was taking off, said Carl Brun, a radio operator at the airport.
A 70-year-old man was killed and a 65-year-old woman was injured, emergency officials said.
The woman was flown to Washoe Medical Center in Reno via helicopter. Her condition was unknown Friday evening.
One of the airport's two runways remained open as emergency crews, including two helicopter ambulances and four fire engines, tried to remove the injured passenger from the wreckage.
Brun said he did not hear a distress call before he looked up and saw the wreck and called 911.
The couple's son and grandchildren were in a plane ahead of them, according to reports.