The Arnold Volksplane VP-1 came down just before 11 a.m. after the pilot lost altitude on his landing descent coming into Martha's Vineyard Airport, the West Tisbury Police Department said. The aviator radioed the tower about two miles east of the runway to declare an emergency and made a crash-landing in a field in the nearby Manuel F. Correllus State Forest.
Emergency responders treated the pilot, but he was seriously uninjured, police said. There were no passengers on board.
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