The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are piecing together why a small plane crashed near an Albrightsville housing development on Saturday afternoon.

State police at Fern Ridge said a 65-year-old man who was piloting the plane and his 63-year-old female passenger were both from Saylorsburg.The two got themselves out of the plane, police said.They were taken by Lehighton ambulance to the Gnaden Huetten campus of Blue Mountain Health System in Lehighton for evaluation.Information on their conditions was not immediately available.FAA spokesman Rick Breitenfeldt said the agency’s investigation would reveal to whom the Zenith experimental CH701 fixed-wing single engine aircraft is registered, from where it departed and where it was headed.The plane crashed in the woods on Bethlehem Watershed property, south of Pawnee Trail in the Mount Pocahontas development, just before 4 p.m.Penn Forest firefighters contained a fuel leak from the wreckage. Lehighton and Polk Township ambulance services and the Civil Air Patrol were on scene.State troopers from Fern Ridge and Lehighton kept onlookers away from the area until people from the federal agencies arrived.