Emergency responders from the Portage County Sheriff's Department and the Stevens Point and the village of Plover Fire Departments look over Thursday morning August 4, 2011, a light sport experimental plane which went down in a potato field east of Stevens Point after a propeller blade fell off.
(DOUG WOJCIK/STEVENS POINT JOURNAL)
STOCKTON — An experimental aircraft made an emergency landing this morning in a potato field east of Stockton.
Neither the student pilot nor instructor were seriously hurt.
According to pilot Bret Taplin, he and his instructor, John Thompson, took off this morning before 10:30 a.m. from the Stevens Point Municipal Airport. They were flying a light-sport category experimental plane built by Taplin.
The plane started to vibrate and a piece of the propeller fell off, Taplin said from the scene around 10:45 this morning.
Thompson took over flying the plane and landed it in a potato field between Highway 10 and Old Highway 18, east of Stockton Road.
Both Thompson and Taplin were examined by emergency personnel at the scene.
Source: http://www.stevenspointjournal.com
STOCKTON, Wis. (AP) -- A student pilot and his instructor are OK after an emergency landing in a central Wisconsin potato field.
Pilot Bret Taplin says he and instructor John Thompson took off from the Stevens Point Municipal Airport about Thursday morning in an experimental, homebuilt plane. He says the plane he built started to vibrate and a piece of the propeller fell off. The instructor took over the plane and landed it in a potato field east of Stockton.
The Stevens Point Journal says emergency responders tended to the two men at the scene.
The Portage County sheriff's office says the pilot and passenger suffered minor injuries. The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the crash.
Source: http://www.weau.com
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