LYMAN — Two people were injured when the ultralight plane they were in crashed Saturday morning near the Oakwood mobile home park on Beech Street, the chief of the Goodwin’s Mills Fire Department said.

The crash was reported shortly before 9 a.m., according to Chief Rodger Hooper. Firefighters found the plane in the woods about 100 feet from Beech Street, he said, and the two occupants were out of the aircraft and walking around when they arrived.

He said both men were treated for cuts and bruises at the scene and then taken to Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford. One man had a head injury and was subsequently taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland, Hooper said. The other man had a cut on his hand and bruise on his leg.

Hooper said he didn’t have names of the two men, and their conditions Saturday night were unknown.

An inspector from the Federal Aviation Administration was at the site Saturday and that agency will investigate the crash. Hooper said the pilot told him his engine lost power.

“He said he started losing rpms and came down,” Hooper said.

No one was injured on the ground and there was no fire at the scene, Hooper said. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection was called in because of a fuel spill from the aircraft, Hooper said, but the amount was less than three gallons.

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