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Plane Mysteriously Takes Off Without Pilot, Flies Over a Mile Before Crashing
On 5/7/21 at 7:00 AM EDT
The vintage aircraft reported to be a 1941 Piper model, according to Nebraska s
Lincoln Journal Star mysteriously took off with apparently no one aboard from the runway of the Central City airport at around 7:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday while it was undergoing maintenance, the Merrick County Sheriff s Office said.
The plane flew out of control while a technician went to check his work during the maintenance, according to Merrick County Sgt. Jake Bauer.
There were no injuries reported from the crash. The scene was cleared by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board, according to the sheriff s office, which posted images of the damaged 80-year-old plane.