With no wheels, a pilot made a nearly perfect "belly landing" of his airplane when his landing gear failed.
Each week, Dakota County Sheriff Dave Bellows releases a newsletter. In case you haven't seen it, Lakeville Patch has it.
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Northfield pilot Benny Harris Svien, 61, was flying back home after a brief flight when he attempted to land on the runway located on his property in southern Dakota County, according to Sheriff Dave Bellows.
A Northfield man escaped with just minor injuries after crashing his small single-engine aircraft on July 31 in Farmington after an aborted landing. The pilot, Benny Harris Svien, 61, was flying back home after a brief flight when he attempted to land on the runway located on his property in southern Dakota County, according to Sheriff Dave Bellows. After attempting to land he powered the aircraft but began experiencing mechanical problems with the plane's rudder at approximately 1,700 feet, according to a media release from the Sheriff's Office. The plane caught on fire after crashing in a cornfield. Svien was able to get out of the plane, sustaining only minor cuts to his neck. The plane, a 2002 Kit Fox classified as an experimental …
Authorities say Gary Debaun suffered only minor injuries in the crash near Lamberton, MN, a town about 130 miles southwest of Lakeville.
A Lakeville pilot suffered minor injuries in a plane crash yesterday in southwest Minnesota. Authorities say Gary Debaun's plane experienced mechanical issues before he made an emergency landing on Highway 14, a rural highway in Lamberton Township, roughly 130 miles southwest of Lakeville. The Redwood County Sheriff's Office said Debaun suffered only minor injuries when, after landing on the roadway, his plane skidded into a ditch, hit several trees and flipped. The plane, a single-engine, fixed-wing Pitts Special SPS, is a total loss, the sheriff's office said. Debaun was the only person in the plane, and the FAA is investigating. Lakeville Patch will have more on this story as developments warrant.
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Crash of the ultra-light airplane occurred around 3:30 a.m. on Saturday.
A Lakeville man is dead after his ultra-light airplane crashed near Zumbrota on Saturday afternoon. The Goodhue County Sheriff's Office said Mark E. Ellis, 58, of Lakeville, crashed shortly before takoff from the Wanamingo airstrip on the evening of Friday, July 8. Wanamingo is south of Lakeville, near the town of Zumbrota. According to a report in the Rochester Post Bulletin, Ellis left from an airstrip in Farmington at around 1 p.m. Friday with another ultra-light aircraft, and they two aircraft landed at the airstrip near Wanamingo between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m., says a release from the sheriff's office. The press release says the two pilots later left the Wanamingo airstrip about 4 p.m. or 5 p.m. The lead aircraft diverted to a Northfield …
