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BOONE, Iowa (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says one person is dead in the crash of small plane towing a banner near the Farm Progress Show near Boone in central Iowa.
FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory says the Cessna 150 with just the pilot on board crashed about 2 miles north of Boone Thursday morning. She says the plane is registered to Drake Aerial Enterprise in Genoa, Ohio.
The airplane went down in a cornfield a few hundred yards north of a residence.
One witness reported that the banner got caught in the corn, then nose dived into the ground.
The daughter of the field’s owners, Daryll and Rosie Crouse, called in the crash, according to law enforcement officials.
Shane Banghart said that he saw the plane flying north over his house before it went down in: “He was out of sight for about 30 seconds and then I heard a loud bang.”
Boone police officers and firefighters, Boone County Sheriff’s Office deputies and the Iowa State Patrol troopers were among the first responders.
- AP contributed to this report.
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