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SPANISH FORK — A fixed-wing, single engine Cessna carrying four people took an emergency landing in a field Friday when the plane's motor quit.
"He did a really good job putting the plane down safely," Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Shaun Bufton said of the plane's pilot. "He did what he was trained to do."
The small turbo-prop plane was headed to the Provo Airport after it took off from the Spanish Fork-Springville Airport just before noon. Bufton said the plane's motor was exhibiting mechanical problems, started to sputter and then stopped, requiring an emergency landing in a wide open field near the small town of Palmyra, located directly west of Springville.
No one was injured in the landing, but the plane's propeller was bent and the front wheel was broken. The plane took out a barbed wire fence just before it came to a stop at about 1750 West and 4000 South.
The plane is registered with the Federal Aviation Administration, to an corporate owner in Orem. It has had no reported accidents and Bufton said it was flown Friday by an "experienced pilot."
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