Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Nebraska: Pilot Unharmed After Plane goes Down in Alda.

The top of a yellow crop-dusting plane peeks out from the top of tall corn where it stopped after an emergency landing in a cornfield southeast of the corner of Stolley Park and Monitor roads west of Grand Island on Tuesday afternoon. The plane suffered little damage and the pilot walked out of the cornfield after the landing. (Independent/Barrett Stinson)

A California man landed a spray plane safely in cornfield this afternoon after the engine failed.

Donald Rose, 40, of Imperial, Calif., was uninjured after the landing. The plane is owned by Wilber Ellis Air out of Prosser, according to a press release from the Hall County Sheriff’s Department.

Employees in the tower of the Central Nebraska Regional Airport lost contact with the pilot around 1:09 p.m.. They contacted the Hall County Sheriff’s Department to help find the plane.

In the meantime, the pilot contacted his employer and reported he was OK. He was down somewhere between Alda and Grand Island in a cornfield, possibly a mile to a mile and a half north of a feedlot, according to the scanner.

According to the scanner traffic, the pilot was located around 1:38 p.m. near Stolley Park Road and Monitor Road.

According to the Sheriff’s Department’s press release, the plane landed safely in a cornfield on the southeast corner of that intersection.

The airport manager was going to call the Federal Aviation Administration, and sheriff’s deputies were securing the scene. The downed plane was in a cornfield approximately 100 yards from the road, according to scanner traffic.

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