A plane made an unplanned landing in a field east of Longmont’s Vance Brand Municipal Airport on Tuesday morning.
The plane, a Mooney M20E, landed east of the runway at Vance Brand about 8:50 a.m. after the pilot reported an engine issue during takeoff, according to a preliminary statement provided by the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA didn’t immediately confirm whether the plane took off from Vance Brand but said it took off about 8:50 a.m. as well.
Neither of the two people on the plane was injured, and there was no fire at the landing site, city of Longmont spokesperson Sandra Seader wrote in an email around 10:20 a.m.
The flight was for “general aviation,” according to the FAA.
The National Transportation Safety Board also received reports of the incident, according to NTSB spokesperson Sarah Taylor Sulick, who directed the Times-Call to local officials for more information.
The plane could not be moved from where it landed until the FAA investigates, according to Seader. The plane — a small, white-with-blue-wings aircraft with tail number N3264F — had been moved from the field and was on airport property by 3 p.m.A preliminary incident report is expected as soon as Wednesday, according to the FAA.
More information, including any damages and identifying information about the two people in the plane, was not available.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
Editor’s note: This story has been edited to remove incorrect details about the plane’s trip.
