Authorities and emergency crews responded at around 9:40-a.m. today (Wednesday), to a call about a possible plane crash near the Harlan Airport.  According to the report, the plane was apparently trying to land on the grass runway at the Harlan Airport, but it clipped a fence, causing the aircraft to flip onto its nose into a farm field just north of the airport, on the west side of Highway 59.   Shelby County Emergency Management, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, Harlan Police Department, Harlan Fire Department and Medivac Ambulance were all on the scene. The aircraft’s pilot and only occupant, was not hurt.

Pictures from the scene showed the single-engine, fixed wing 1946 Cessna 120 upside down in the field. It’s registry indicates it was formerly owned by Jim Kickland, of Atlantic, but had been sold about two-weeks ago.

Photo courtesy Brian Rink

Photo from our sister station KNOD