UPDATE: Small plane crashes at Clearwater airport

Clearwater Airpark has reopened after a minor plane crash Saturday morning left one person hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, and two others with only minor injuries. The privately owned plane had just lifted into the air at Clearwater Airpark at 1000 N. Hercules Ave. when it teetered, came back to the ground, slid across the runway and landed on its belly, according to Clearwater Fire Rescue.

The crash occurred at 10:06 a.m. The names of the three people on board the plane were not released. Two were treated at the scene, and a third was transported to Morton Plant Hospital, according to fire rescue. The airport closed four minutes after the accident. The Federal Aviation Administration will be investigating.

The plane is a six-seater, single-engine 1984 Beech Bonanza.