A Mooresville man escaped serious injury after the ultralight plane he was piloting crashed near Laredo Sunday evening.
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A Mooresville man escaped serious injury after the ultralight plane he was piloting crashed near Laredo Sunday evening.
According to the Grundy County Sheriff’s Department and witnesses at the scene, John Sutton was piloting the plane from the Barnstormer’s airstrip on Highway 6 west of Galt, when the plane struck a tree. Sutton and the aircraft were suspended in the tree until rescuers were able to extract him.
A witness said Sutton had been to Barnstormers for a fly-in meeting of the Experimental Aircraft Association and was enroute to the Chillicothe airport, his home base, when the accident occurred. Sutton told witnesses that a cable that controls maneuverability of the plane had broken just after take-off and he had been looking for a place to land the aircraft when it struck the tree on land owned by Richard Troester of 126 S.E. 75th Ave. Other EAA members had arrived in Chillicothe and became worried when Sutton failed to arrive within the expected length of time. Four of the persons who had attended the meeting took another plane to retrace their flight pattern and were alerted to Sutton’s situation by the rescue vehicles at the scene.
Sutton sustained moderate injuries, but was not believed to have any broken bones. He was taken to Wright Memorial Hos-pital by Grundy County Am-bulance and was later transferred to Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City.