Plane crash kills 1; pilot survives with serious injury April 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail GREAT VALLEY, N.Y. (AP) — A man died Wednesday afternoon in a small airplane crash in New York that the pilot survived with broken bones and burns, authorities said. Cattaraugus County Sheriff Timothy Whitcomb told the Olean Times Herald that the single-engine plane crashed about 2 p.m. Wednesday shortly after it took off from the Great Valley Airport. A witness told first responders the plane appeared to have trouble after taking off, the Times Herald reported. A man flown to a Buffalo hospital with serious injuries claimed to be the pilot, Sheriff’s Capt. Ronald Lott said. He is expected to survive.