What: Piper PA-22-150 single engine aircraft
Where: Greenfield County, Indiana
When: May 26, 2012, 7:00 a.m.
Who: 3 aboard
Why: Near the Pennsy biking trail and County Road 400 east, a single engine aircraft, a Piper PA-22-150 Tri-Pacer has crashed.
The accident occurred south of Pope Airfield where the pilot had just attempted takeoff but failed to achieve adequate lift to fly over the treeline.
They did miss power lines.
Pilot Melvin Grant, of Greenfield, and passengers Mark Grant and Andrew Pfaff were taken to Indianapolis’s Methodist Hospital.
The FAA is investigating.
American Airlines flight AA-730 had to return and make an emergency landing in Charlotte, North Carolina, on December 1st.
