Wisconsin News

Man hospitalized after crashing homemade plane in western Wisconsin

By WCCO Staff

/ CBS Minnesota

Mid-morning headlines from July 29, 2022

PRESCOTT, Wis. -- A 69-year-old Inver Grove Heights man is in the hospital after crashing a homemade airplane in Wisconsin.

The Pierce County Sheriff's Office says the man was operating a homemade experimental "Sonax" aircraft around 7 a.m. on Friday when he lost engine power. He tried to make an emergency landing on State Highway 35 and County Road E but the plane hit road signs and came to a stop in a ditch. 

Pierce County Sheriff

He was taken to the hospital with undetermined injuries.

The incident is under investigation. 

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