GULF SHORES, Ala. ( WALA ) - A small plane crash this afternoon brought a large first-responder presence to Alabama 59 between Coastal Alabama Community College and the Gulf Shores Tourism, the Gulf Shores Police Department.

According to city of Gulf Shores Public Information Officer Grant Brown, the single-engine plane with two people aboard was preparing to land at Gulf Shores International Airport around 2 p.m. As it neared Alabama 59 from the west, one wing apparently clipped a tree, causing the plane to spin around and crash in a vacant lot just west of the airport runway, he said.

Both people were conscious and alert when removed from the plane, Grant said. They were taken to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola.

Because the crash happened outside the airport boundaries, airport o

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