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Staff at the Chinle hospital where a Flagstaff podiatrist, injured in a plane crash Friday night, flew daily, are wishing for the doctor to make a speedy recovery.Dr. James Levitt was the only occupant of the single-eingine Beechcraft Bonanza, when it crashed at about 8 p.m. The plane hit a tree, sheared off a wing and crashed about 400 yards short of the runway at Flagstaff’s Pulliam Airport.

Levitt was taken by ambulance to Flagstaff Medical Center. He was then transferred to a hospital in Phoenix, where he was listed in critical condition.

No word was available Monday as to his condition.

Levitt flew daily to Chinle, which is about 150 miles northeast of Flagstaff on the Navajo Nation.

Marla Stuart, director of quality management at the hospital in Chinle, said staff at the hospital have been notified of Levitt’s crash.

Arizona Daily Sun

Note: Flagstaff Today estimates that the crash was actually around 850 yards short of the runway.