New Hampshire (USA) - An experienced pilot was flying his small plane. At first everything seemed to be working fine, but then the plane suddenly crashed - narrowly missing a residential building.

As People reported, the accident occurred last Tuesday in Hampton in the US state of New Hampshire .

Pilot Dave Lennon was on his way to the landing site in his private plane - which he said he had flown into this airspace hundreds of times - when the plane suddenly malfunctioned.

"I knew about half a second before the crash that I wasn't going to make it," Lennon told"NBC10 Boston".

In the crash, the small plane narrowly missed a residential building and ended up crashing into some trees. It is not yet knownexactly what caused the accident .

At around 10:15 a.m. (local time), the local fire department responded to the accident. "When we arrived on scene, there was a single plane on the ground between some trees. The pilot was walking around and had extricated himself from the plane," explained Nathan Denio, deputy chief of the Hampton Fire Department.

The victim was examined by paramedics but refused to be taken to a hospital.

Emergency responders made sure the plane was not leaking fuel and waited at the crash site for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to begin investigating the crash.

The broken aircraft was dismantled by the fire department the following day. First the wings were removed, then the fuselage was taken away.

Pilot Lennon said after the crash that this would not prevent him from flying again in the future.