(Sanborn)– An investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board says a small plane tried to land in a corn field before it crashed Tuesday in O’Brien county, killing all three people on board.
Aaron Sauer says there’s a 100-foot track in the field from where the plane touched the corn to where it crashed next to a gravel road.
The single engine Piper 28 crashed between Sanborn and Sheldon around 11:00 a.m. Tuesday.
Authorities identify the dead men as 64-year-old Francis Allegretti of Cambridge, Wisconsin; 60-year-old Thomas Boos of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin and 65-year-old Malcolm McMillan of Milton, Wisconsin.
Sauer says the men left from Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin and were headed to South Dakota for a hunting trip.
Sauer says there was no emergency call before the plane crashed.
