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Plane Lands Safely in a Field

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A same plane lost power while switching fuel supplies but was able to land safely in a Wayne County cornfield.

Indiana State troopers from the Pendleton Post were dispatched shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday to the report of small plane going down in a filed south east of Richmond Municipal Airport.  Troopers arrived on the scene to find a single engine Piper 235 in a corn field just south of the 4400 block of State Road 122.

The pilot, John Lewis, 26 of Camden, Ohio told troopers that he had just fueled up at the Richmond Airport and was taking off when the plane lost power. Preliminary investigation found that the pilot was attempting to switch to the fuel tank that was full when the plane lost power and was forced to land in the corn field.

Neither the pilot nor any of his three passengers were injured. He told troopers he was about twenty minutes away from his destination when the incident occurred. The FAA office in Indianapolis was notified and investigators arrived at the scene Saturday evening to conduct an investigation into the incident.

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