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Piper Field Landing

What: Madison Air Guard Flying Club single engine Piper en route to a Sauk Prairie Memorial Airport
Where: a half mile north of the Sauk Prairie Memorial Airport runway, Wisconsin
When: Dec 29 2010
Who: pilot Chauncey Yost Jr
Why: The pilot saw high power lines and made an emergency landing in a field north of the runway where he intended to land. Local passers by helped dig his undamaged plane out of the snow. No ambulance service responded as there were no injuries.

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