EASTON, MO. (AP) -- A northwest Missouri pilot has escaped serious injury after crashing his small vintage airplane near Missouri 6.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says 48-year-old Stephen Blazer of Easton had just taken off when his 1940 Taylorcraft plane experienced a mechanical failure.
The St. Joseph News-Press reported that the plane went down in a bean field Blazer owned.
Neighbors called for help, and Blazer was taken to the hospital with a broken nose and a minor cut to his face. Blazer initially planned to travel to Rosecrans Memorial Airport.
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