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FAA investigating emergency landing of homemade plane

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DAN CAVINS, Local 12 This single-engine plane crashed this morning in rural Warren County. The pilot was reportedly not injured.

Single-engine plane took off from the Warren County Airport and landed in a field along Ohio 48.

Staff Report Updated 9:32 AM Monday, March 22, 2010

TURTLECREEK TWP. — Federal authorities are still in the process of investigating the emergency landing of a single-engine plane in a rural Warren County field on Saturday morning, March 20.

Investigators with the Federal Aviation Administration are attempting to speak with the 46-year-old pilot who survived the incident today, according to our media partner WKRC-TV Local 12. Nobody was injured during the accident, according to state authorities.

Kevin Kinney of Cincinnati was reportedly found outside of the plane uninjured, police said. Authorities said Kinney had built the plane himself and had only flown for around six hours when it began losing oil pressure, forcing an emergency landing.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol reports the fixed-win plane took off from the Warren County Airport in Lebanon and touched down along Ohio 48, just south of Ohio 122.

On the way down, the plane reportedly clipped a fence and narrowly missed some electrical wires. The plane suffered damage to its landing gear, propeller and wing, but there was no fuel spillage.

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