At least five of the 15 people on board a skydiving aircraft were injured after the small plane went off the runway at Cross Keys Airport in Williamstown, New Jersey, on Wednesday.

Five people remain hospitalized with injuries suffered after a skydiving plane crashed in Gloucester County last week. The single-engine Cessna 208B craft with 15 aboard crashed shortly before 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in a wooded area adjacent to Cross Keys Airport in Monroe Township, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

The outcome "could have been much worse," said the representative of Skydive Cross Keys, which has operated since 1994 at Cross Keys Airport in Williamstown. It said a Cessna 208B carrying 15 people developed "mechanical issues" at roughly 3,000 feet, minutes after taking off at about 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday.