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Airplane makes an emergency landing in a northern Iowa soybean field

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July 20th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Humboldt County, Iowa) – The pilot of a small airplane made an emergency landing Tuesday, in a Humboldt County soybean field. According to reports, the pilot was flying home to Colorado after attending a wedding in Wisconsin, when his aircraft ran out of gas. He brought the plane down safely in the field off of Utah Avenue. Neither the pilot nor his passenger were injured.

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s office said someone gave the pilot some gas and he took off again off of the gravel road on Texas Avenue nearby.

The pilot has agreed to pay the farmer back for the damage his soybean field.