SYRACUSE, Utah— A pilot sustained minor injuries Monday night after a crash landing in a vacant field in Syracuse.
It happened around just before 10:00 p.m. near 700 South and 2200 West. The pilot had been flying solo above the Great Salt Lake. The small plane began to have engine problems, and the pilot requested an emergency landing at the Ogden-Hinckley Airport. When the pilot realized he wouldn't make it to Ogden, he decided to bring the plane down in a Syracuse alfalfa field.
"It was great on his part to even try to find a place [to land] in the dark," said Sgt. Phillip Rogich of the Syracuse Police Department. "He got pretty far away from all the buildings and didn't really do any damage to any property other than his plane."
During the crash landing, the plane flipped and came to rest upside-down. The pilot walked away from the crash site with a sprained ankle and no other injuries. The Federal Aviation Administration completed their investigation Monday night. It was unclear why the engine lost power.
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