KENOSHA, Wis. —A pilot was forced to land his single-engine plane in a Kenosha County cornfield Sunday afternoon.
Emergency crews were called to the scene at about 1:30 p.m.
The plane landed near the Kenosha Airport, east of 88th Avenue in the area of the county jail.
"We know that the aircraft had two occupants on board, the pilot and a passenger," said Battalion Chief Matthew Haerter, of the Kenosha Fire Department. "We know that they were attempting to go to the airport and for an unknown reason lost power and ended up landing in the cornfield."
The pilot and the passenger were not injured.
"It did not tilt. It did not lose fuel," Haerter said. "He's certainly not a new pilot. He was able to get the aircraft to go extremely slow prior to touching the ground, which hence, realized a very successful outcome here."
The plane, a 1959 Piper PA-18, is registered to Raymond Cook, from Spring Grove, Illinois.
The plane won an award at Airventure in Oshkosh last year.
Special equipment was brought in to haul the plane away.
Property owner Joey Romano took the incident in stride.
"This is probably the second or third one that I remember that this happened to," Romano said. "Fortunately the pilot was not hurt and was able to walk away from it. So that's always a good thing."
Story and video: http://www.wisn.com
http://registry.faa.gov/N4273S
Date: 06-DEC-15
Time: 19:30:00Z
Regis#: N4273S
Aircraft Make: PIPER
Aircraft Model: PA18
Event Type: Incident
Highest Injury: None
Damage: None
FAA Flight Standards District Office: FAA Milwaukee FSDO-13
City: KENOSHA
State: Wisconsin
AIRCRAFT EXPERIENCED AN ENGINE FAILURE AND LANDED IN A CORNFIELD ONE MILE EAST OF THE AIRPORT.
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