(3 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monroe Township, New Jersey – 3 July 2025
1. A plane flies above Cross Keys Airport
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Jakubowski, retired mechanical engineer:
“A skydiving plane crashed at Cross Keys Airport with 14 skydivers and one pilot aboard.”
3. A plane at Cross Keys Airport
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Jakubowski, retired mechanical engineer:
“I live across the street from the Crosskey’s Skydiving School. In fact, when their chutes open, they basically — where they jump out of the plane — is right over my house.”
5. Various of plane hangars
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Jakubowski, retired mechanical engineer:
“What happened yesterday is I was out on the patio and I had earbuds in, listening to some music, and all of a sudden, police cars, ambulances from different townships just all ascended on this area.”
7. Skydive Cross Keys sign
8. Jakubowski’s residence
9. Jakubowski’s boots
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Jakubowski, retired mechanical engineer:
“It makes me feel sorry for the pilot and the people that were in the plane. You know, actually, they’re talking about three people that are critical.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Camden, New Jersey – 3 July 2025
11. Various of Cooper University Hospital
STORYLINE:
The pilot of a skydiving team encountered mechanical issues that prompted an emergency landing at a small New Jersey airport but could not get the plane stopped at the end of the runway, the company said in a statement Thursday.
Skydive Cross Keys said the plane was at an altitude of about 3,000 feet (900 meters) when the problem arose.
Fifteen people were aboard the plane, and as of Thursday afternoon three remained in critical condition at a New Jersey hospital and five others were listed as serious.
Fire crews had to cut down trees to get to the wreckage, which McBride said was “completely mangled, just beyond repair. It just looked like a big pile of metal.”
Less-injured victims were tending to more seriously hurt people. Some were screaming in pain and victims were covered in jet fuel.
“It was chaotic,” said Monroe Township Police Chief John McBride at a Thursday news conference. “Officers are hollering for assistance, trying to calm everyone down.”
AP video shot by Mingson Lau
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