ELBERTA – An airplane crash was reported on the morning of June 27 near the junction of County Road 32 and County Road 95.

Tom Tyler, director of Baldwin County Emergency Management Agency (EMA), told GCM his team was dispatched by Baldwin County 911 at 10:09 a.m. The first responders on the scene reported a two-passenger plane upside down in the field.

He said he was not sure when the plane crashed but that he “heard a possibility that it occurred overnight.”

No bodies were found near the site, but blood and broken glass were found in the aircraft, Tyler said. Because of the state of the crash, he said “one could conclude” the individual(s) were picked up in the area and possibly taken to a hospital or could have walked somewhere.

“Kind of a mystery when you have a crashed plane and nobody to tell you how it got that way,” Tyler said.

The pilot did not run out of fuel as there was allegedly 50 gallons of fuel on board. Tyler speculated the pilot tried to land because of a potential mechanical problem or other reason to land quickly. It was when the plane had to land in an area without a runway that it likely flipped, he said.

Elberta Volunteer Fire Department personnel were already at the site when the EMA team arrived, and they told the Baldwin County dispatcher they had a handle on the situation. Tyler explained that EMA is often contacted as protocol and doesn’t always have to get involved.

“We get called just in case it turns into something big,” he said.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will work to locate the pilot based on the tail number, Tyler said, as part of their standard protocol.

“Seems that we should be learning something to solve this mystery in the next couple of days,” Tyler said.