( CNN ) -- Two people died Tuesday when a single-engine plane crashed into a recreational vehicle park near North Myrtle Beach , South Carolina , a local official said . The crash killed the plane 's pilot and a woman inside a trailer at Briarcliffe RV Resort , according to North Myrtle Beach Public Information Officer Pat Dowling . The woman 's husband was standing outside the trailer when the impact happened around 1 p.m . ET . He was taken to a hospital , Dowling said . Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the airplane was a Cessna 172 . The pilot had been coming in for a landing at nearby Grand Strand Regional Airport , Dowling said . RV park member Cliff Douglas told CNN affiliate WBTW that he was inside his vehicle playing with his grandson when he heard the airplane 's engine `` screaming full tilt '' overhead . `` Almost instantaneously you heard the impact , '' he said . Dowling said neither of the dead had been identified .
NEW : A witness says the plane 's engine was `` screaming full tilt '' before the accident . Two people -- the pilot and a person on the ground -- died in the small-plane crash . The crash happened in North Myrtle Beach , South Carolina .