Single-engine aircraft makes emergency landing, north of Beatrice Municipal Airport
BEATRICE – The pilot of a aingle-engine airplane was forced to make an emergency landing Monday morning, when the engine quit on the aircraft. The plane made a landing in a soybean field about a mile north of the Beatrice Municipal Airport, between Hickory and Hackberry Roads.
The pilot of the inbound aircraft apparently was not injured. Beatrice Fire and Rescue Captain Corey Lienemann says an ambulance and rural fire truck were dispatched at 6:35 a.m. but were cancelled enroute to the scene.
Lienemann says there was no fire.
The identity of the pilot was not immediately known, nor the extent of damage to the aircraft. Gage County Sheriff Millard Gustafson said the plane was enroute from Seward, flying to the State of Arkansas when the aircraft developed engine trouble and could not make it to an airport runway.
A Beatrice Municipal Airport official said a Federal Aviation Administration investigator would likely be sent to the scene to look into the mishap.
