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Calif. pilot lands plane safely in Neb. cornfield

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say a California man safely landed a crop duster in a cornfield near Grand Island after an engine problem. The Grand Island Independent says 40-year-old Donald Rose, of Imperial, Calif., made the emergency landing Tuesday afternoon. The Hall County sheriff’s department says the tower at the Central Nebraska Regional Airport northeast of Grand Island lost contact with Rose shortly after 1 p.m. and contacted the sheriff’s office to help find the plane. The plane was located in a cornfield. Rose walked out of the field after the landing. The plane sustained little damage. The plane is owned by Wilber Ellis Air in Prosser.

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