If you left your 182 in a Marne, Michigan cornfield, the FAA would like to speak to you

[flyingron]

Federal investigators working with Ottawa County Sheriff to determine how a plane ended up in a cornfield

Authorities said no one was inside or near the aircraft in Marne. Now investigators are looking to identify the owner, find out why it crashed, and who was flying.

www.wzzm13.com

 

[GeorgeC]

I don't know what the joke is, but the punchline is Ottawatopoeia.

 

[Lowflynjack]

They almost got away with it!

 

[Skip Miller]

Investigators are “working to identify the owner”? Why not just look up the N-number in the FAA database? That part at least is easy…

-Skip

 

[Clip4]

Maybe the registration is expired or the plane was de registered. Maybe a Canadian aircraft.

 

[Matthew]

Reminded me of this story about 7 years ago:

Pilot flies into town for a meeting, attempts to land on a road, crashes, walks into town so he doesn't miss the meeting. Someone driving by sees a crashed airplane and calls it in. Cops show up and can't find the pilot. Eventually he comes back to check on the plane.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article136353793.html

A year later he does it again:

Maule M-5-235C Lunar Rocket, N9281E, registered to and operated by the pilot, accident occurred April 24, 2018 (and) Maule M-5-180C, N56552, accident occurred March 02, 2017 in Roxbury, McPherson County, Kansas

The National Transportation Safety Board did not travel to the scene of this accident. Additional Participating Entity: Federal Aviation...

www.kathrynsreport.com

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

Investigators are “working to identify the owner”?

Article I read earlier said the plane was registered to someone who lived just a few miles away (or words to that effect).

 

[Chrisgoesflying]

Maybe a Canadian aircraft.

Just as easy to search the Canadian registry.

 

[Skyrys62]

Looks like a crime scene....kind of ear-y with them stalking around like that.

 

[SFDukie]

Per news report, registered to an owner in nearby Coopersville, MI. That makes it a 1961-D model.
Last flight aware track I could find was from 11/2023
Owner has a ppc, received in 2016, second class medical 1/2016

 

[Zeldman]

Another person that doesn't understand ethanol.??

 

[Pugs]

Looks like a crime scene....kind of ear-y with them stalking around like that.

They're just nibbletting at the start of the investigation.

 

[Daleandee]

They're just nibbletting at the start of the investigation.

Keep your ears open ...

 

[Dana]

Another person that doesn't understand ethanol.??

Ethanol in the fuel or in the pilot?

 

[StraightnLevel]

"Officer, I got the bill for my insurance renewal yesterday. I didn't crash the plane, I abandoned it."

 

[MauleSkinner]

I dunno…these puns are pretty corny.

 

[GoFly]

Didn’t know John Deere and Cessna joined forces, but their new combine could sure use a few design tweaks.

 

[Mahneuvers]

Federal investigators working with Ottawa County Sheriff to determine how a plane ended up in a cornfield

Authorities said no one was inside or near the aircraft in Marne. Now investigators are looking to identify the owner, find out why it crashed, and who was flying.

www.wzzm13.com

Not a grain/kernel of truth in that article.

 

[painless]

Kinda like the scene in the movie where the baseball players come walking out if a cornfield. “If you build a runway, they will come…..”

 

[Daleandee]

I dunno…these puns are pretty corny.

Seems some of them are way out in left (corn) field ...

 

[Mahneuvers]

He was shooting for the highway but the roads are a real maize around there.

 

[Mahneuvers]

Was it a Cessna or a Husky?

 

[MauleSkinner]

I had a dream about that field.

 

[Flying Keys]

Viral advertising for corn mazes is getting out of control.

 

[EdFred]

Were there any children involved?

 

[mandm]

 

[455 Bravo Uniform]

Hominy more stupid corn puns ‘til this thread dries up?

 

[Skyrys62]

Hominy more stupid corn puns ‘til this thread dries up?

Shucks, I'd say a couple more.
Cause that landing definitely wasn't smooth as silk.

 

[Mikey52]

Hope we get the full story, I'm all ears.

 

[Pugs]

Hominy more stupid corn puns ‘til this thread dries up?

At least there's only one. Otherwise we'd have to combine.

 

[Huckster79]

This is pretty close to home, I’ll keep my ears open for any rumor mill info I can pick up at the airport

 

[DaleB]

Landing there must have required grits and determination.

 

[Mahneuvers]

Hominy more stupid corn puns ‘til this thread dries up?

A poor crop of puns for sure.

 

[Mahneuvers]

The preliminary states an absence of popcorn indicates possible fuel starvation.

 

[Fearless Tower]

Abandoned Cessna in a cornfield.....anyone seen Gryder lately?

 

[Dave Theisen]

Abandoned Cessna in a cornfield.....anyone seen Gryder lately?

I’m surprised it took this long. He has become PoA’s form of Godwin’s Law.

 

[eman1200]

that's all I got.

 

[robin ardoin]

Hominy more stupid corn puns ‘til this thread dries up?

Don’t get in a tassel about it.

 

[MauleSkinner]

Don’t get in a tassel about it.

There’s got to be another joke about tassels and propellers somewhere, but I’m not going to field it here.

 

[Mahneuvers]

The plane is registered to Orville Redenbacher.