Small plane glides to safety near I-70 in Hancock County; pilot unhurt
GREENFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — No one was hurt Friday morning after a small plane landed on the shore of a retention pond near I-70 in Hancock County, police said.
At around 8 a.m., dispatchers began receiving phone calls about a plane crash landing near Mt. Comfort Road and I-70, close to property owned by Carvana, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Police arrived and found a small plane next to a retention pond near the Carvana property on County Road 200 North between County Roads 700 West and 600 West/Mt. Comfort Road, the sheriff’s office says.
The pilot, identified as 54-year-old Timothy Borrup, of Palm Bay, Florida, was found uninjured.
Borrup told police he’d just taken off from Indianapolis Regional Airport on his way to Florida and was trying to gain altitude when his Cirrus Vision Jet SF50 started to sputter and stall.
“When the jet began to nose-up and lose power, Mr. Borrup activated the jet’s emergency system that deployed a parachute from the front of the aircraft. The parachute deployed and the jet, with Borrup safely inside, then slowly glided down to the ground,” the sheriff’s office said.
The Federal Aviation Administration, National Transportation Safety Board, and other entities will investigate the cause of the crash.
