A small plane crashed on the seventh hole of a Colorado golf course Wednesday — just feet from a group of golfers — and miraculously, everybody walked away unscathed, officials and witnesses told The Post.
“It freaked us out for sure,” said Dave Lopez, who runs Meridian Golf Course in the Denver suburb of Englewood. “It crashed there next to three people — within 30 feet of them.”
The single-engine Cessna 172 had just taken off from the nearby Centennial airport at 9:44 a.m. when its engine suddenly gave out — forcing the two people on board to perform an emergency landing, fire officials and Lopez said.
But as the plane approached the links, it hit a hill, slammed into the green and flipped over — stunning folks swinging clubs, according to the South Metro Fire Rescue.
A Cessna with 2 people on board, crashed ending upside down on Meridian Golf course.
A small plane crashed on the 7th hole of a Colorado golf course — just 30 feet from a group of players.
In a lucky twist, both passengers “self-evacuated and walked away” with no serious injuries, and nobody on the course was hurt either, said South Metro Fire Rescue officer Brian Willie.
“We were very surprised by the scene. When we arrived, the plane was upside down and for two people to walk away from that — we’re really thankful,” Willie said.
One of the people on board was treated for minor injuries at the scene, and neither was hospitalized, he said.
The plane took off from an airport just a few miles from Meridian Golf Course.
A photo posted by the fire department shows the mangled plane lying upside down on the well-manicured grass with damage to the wings and nose.
The golf course briefly closed three holes as authorities investigated the accident, Lopez said.
He said that in the past 30 years, four planes have crashed on the golf course, which is located a few miles from the airport. One of them smashed into a grassy field last September, he said.
An image of the plane in the most recent crash shows a logo on its tail that reads “ATP,” a national flight school with Colorado training centers in Denver and Boulder.
