(Jackson, Mn.)– No injuries were reported in the crash of a light airplane this past weekend near the Jackson, Minnesota airport.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office says it received a report from Flight Services of Princeton, Minnesota shortly after midnight Sturday. The report stated that an emergency locator transmitter had been activated from an airplane that was within a mile and-a-half of the Jackson airport.
Sheriff’s deputies and Airport Manager Andy Koopman arrived on the scene, along with air and ground crews with the Civil Air Patrol from Worthington. Upon investigating authorities learned 66-year-old Adrian Poynter of Forest Lake, Minnesota had downed a small Cessna 140 in a corn field on approach to the runway.
Poynter was located at his parents home in Jackson uninjurred.
The plane was located northeast of the runway in a corn field farmed by Craig and Steve Fransen of Jackson. Minor damage was reported to the aircraft’s nose and wings.
Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration completed their investigation Saturday morning.
