Two men were seriously injured in a plane crash Sunday morning near a North Hampton, N.H. airfield, officials said.
Police were notified at about 9:19 a.m. of the crash in a wooded area off Cedar Road, according to a joint statement Sunday by North Hampton Police Chief Michael E. Maddocks and Fire Chief Michael J. Tully.
Local authorities told the Federal Aviation Administration that a Piper PA-28 crashed in a wooded area about 2,000 feet from the end of the Hampton Airfield runway, said FAA official Kathleen Bergen. Officials did not identify the two men and said the cause of the crash was under investigation.
The pilot was able to walk out of the woods with emergency personnel, while his passenger, who had suffered burns, was carried out. The passenger was taken by helicopter from the Portsmouth Regional Hospital to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston due to the severity of his burns, said Nancy Notis, a spokeswoman for the Portsmouth hospital.
Notis said the pilot was in the intensive care unit in fair condition Sunday evening. Officials said both are expected to recover from their injuries.
Though the crash occurred near Hampton Airfield, the plane was not based there, officials said. According to the joint statement, "the plane had landed at the airfield and taxied and then took off," with the crash happening shortly afterward.
Local police and fire departments found the crashed plane on private property. Accessing the site required first responders to enter a long driveway and then walk about 150 yards to a wetlands area in the woods.
A flash fire on the plane largely died out on its own, though fire personnel extinguished hot spots at the scene, officials said.
Globe correspondent Jennifer Smith contributed to this report. Nicole Fleming can be reached at nicole.fleming@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @GirlEatsBoston.