Pilot treated and released after plane crash
A pilot is treated and released after his small plane crashes just south of Royal in Clay County Iowa.It happened around 8:30 this morning.Emergency crews rushed to the scene after a witness reported seeing the plane disappear behind standing corn.When they arrived, they found the pilot, Michael Raymond McDonald of Pocatello, Idaho, being tended to by a witness.His plane, a 1963 Piper Pawnee used for spraying crops, was totaled in the crash.Iowa authorities and the FAA are investigating.
A pilot who crashed his homemade, experimental airplane in rural northern Livingston County Monday afternoon remains in critical condition at the University of Michigan Hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman.