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Pilot Survives Blairstown Crash Landing

A pilot was left with minor injuries after a glider plane crash landed into a Blairstown field Sunday, July 23, authorities said.

Blairstown plane crash.

Blairstown plane crash.

Photo Credit: Blairstown Police Chief Scott Johnsen
Blairstown plane crash.

Blairstown plane crash.

Photo Credit: Blairstown Police Chief Scott Johnsen

Blairstown Police responded to the crash into a field near Vail Road around 2 p.m., Chief Scott Johnsen told Daily Voice.

Hope Volunteer Firefighter John Kruk found the plane using a drone and contacted the pilot with help from the Blairstown Hose Company #1 and the Blairstown Ambulance Corps.

The pilot had lost altitude and “did not have enough lift to make it back to the Blairstown Airport,” prompting a “controlled landing” onto the nearby cornfields, Johnsen said.

The pilot's injuries were "minor at best," the police chief added.

The crash is being investigated by the FAA.

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