Plane hits building while taxiing at airport near Harvard

No injuries were reported after a small airplane hit a building while taxiing at Dacy Airport on Wednesday afternoon near Harvard, officials reported.

The Harvard Fire Protection District responded at 1:20 p.m. Wednesday to 22207 Airport Road for a report of an airplane crash involving a building. Firefighters arrived to find a “small, single-engine airplane on the backside of a hangar at the rear of the property, positioned nose down and leaking fuel,” Harvard Fire Protection District public information officer Alex Vucha said in a news release.

No injuries were reported, but parts of the hangar and the airplane sustained damage, Phil Dacy of Dacy Airport said. The plane was taxiing across the airport property to get fuel when it hit the corner of the building, Dacy said.

The pilot extricated himself from the plane before first responders arrived. Firefighters secured the scene and helped right the plane to prevent more fuel from leaking, Vucha said.

The crash is under investigation by the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration, Vucha said.