MONTCALM COUNTY (WWJ) - One pilot in West Michigan was forced to make a runway out of crops on Saturday morning after they experienced an engine malfunction in-flight.
State police from Lakeview said the small-crop duster plane pulled off a hard landing in Montcalm County around 10:20 a.m. after the pilot told them the engine had failed.
Authorities said the pilot was uninjured and was able to safely land the plane in a field of beans and wheat.
The cause of the engine failure remains unclear at this time.
The crash comes just a week after a Cessna aircraft went down in Oceana County, killing both the pilot and the passenger.
A preliminary report from the July 15 crash found the deceased pilot, 56-year-old Raymond Gundy of Muskegon County, had not passed training to secure an instrument rating (IR).
According to authorities, weather conditions at the time made visibility poor.
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