TAYLORVILLE, Ill. (WAND) - A plane made an emergency landing in Taylorville Sunday.
Taylorville Airport manager Andy Goodall said around noon the plane landed safely in a bean field near N 1025 East Road.
Goodall said plane was headed to Manitoba, Canada. There was only a pilot on board. That pilot was not injured in the incident. The plane had no damage.
Kelly Friesen the pilot of the plane spoke with WAND ans said “I was doing a fuel stop here at Taylorville. And so, I still had about half an hour of fuel and I got to the runway, my landing gear indicator did not come on. So I did I did not have the assurance that my landing gear was down. And about a minute before I got to the, to the runway, I ran out of fuel."
He continued " When I landed I tried hitting the field but one engine went out and the second one went out about three seconds later. So I glided in to the soybean field behind us and it was was actually not much worse than when we're landing on a road there was a good soft landing nice and square wheels touchdown properly and with the the water in the field actually became almost like a grease pad and I just went skidding to a nice gentle stop. All my gear inside stayed put it was it was as good as it could be."
 The plane has since been removed from the field, and was reported to have little to no damage.Â
