STOW, Mass. (AP) – A pilot and a passenger, both from Rhode Island, walked away from a small plane that veered off the runway at an airfield here Thursday.

The two men were aboard the biplane replica that was taking off from Minute Man Air Field around 2 p.m. when the plane went off the runway into some brush, airport manager Don McPherson said. Neither man was injured.

The two, whom McPherson did not identify, were from Westerly. They had flown to Stow earlier in the day to have lunch at the airfield cafe, McPherson said.

“I believe they were on their way home,” McPherson said.

Witnesses said the plane was 10 to 20 feet off the ground when it went down, McPherson said.

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