Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : Plane Crash Injures 4 in Agua Dulce : Aviation: Passengers returning from a meeting with school officials in Mammoth Lakes receive treatment for minor complaints.

Four people--including two school officials and an Acton Town Council member--received minor injuries when the wing of a private airplane struck a runway at Agua Dulce Air Park, authorities said Friday.

The plane was returning from Mammoth Lakes, where the passengers had attended a meeting with school officials.

The accident occurred at 3:14 p.m. Thursday as the plane was landing, according to authorities at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Antelope Valley Station.

Pilot Laszlo Peterfai, 28, decided the plane was not correctly lined up with the runway and tried to abort the landing, but the plane lost power, authorities said.

The right wing of the twin-engine Cessna 310 hit the ground and the plane spun sideways. The right engine caught fire, but an off-duty firefighter who witnessed the crash used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames, authorities said.

On board the plane were Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District Supt. Tom Brown, school board member Julie Feurhelm, Acton Town Council member Jim Duzick, who chairs the district’s alternate high school site committee, and Agua Dulce-Acton Country Journal Editor Lillian Smith.

The passengers and the pilot were able to get out of the plane without sustaining serious injury, said sheriff’s officials.

Feurhelm and Smith were taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita, where they were treated for minor injuries and released, said Patti Fleetwood, a hospital spokeswoman. Brown and Duzick were treated for minor cuts at the scene. Peterfai was not injured.

The school district officials, who are searching for potential school sites for the area’s first high school, had met with Mammoth High School officials about an expansion in their district.