Fitchburg Municipal Airport was temporarily closed Saturday, Aug. 23 after a small plane flipped over on landing around 10:15 a.m. The pilot was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.

A plane flipped over during landing at an airport in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on Saturday. It happened just after 10 a.m. as the pilot tried to land on the runway by Crawford Street at the Fitchburg Airport.

Firefighters responding to a report of a plane crash at the airport on Crawford Street around 10 a.m. found a Cessna 170 resting on its roof in a grassy area along the runway, according to the Fitchburg Fire Department and the Federal Aviation Administration.