FOSTORIA, Ohio — A Sylvania man was uninjured after the single-engine plane he was piloting crashed in Seneca County on Sunday afternoon.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol says 66-year-old James W. Van Hook was flying a Mooney M-20 plane when the plane’s engine lost power and went down just after 4 p.m.
OSHP says Hook made an emergency landing in a field near the intersection of Weaver Road and Ecker Road in Jackson Township.
The crash happened just a third of a mile north of the approach end of runway 27 at Fostoria Metropolitan Airport northeast of Fostoria.
The plane suffered minor damage.
The incident remains under investigation.
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