Pictured above is the four-seat monoplane which crashed in a corn field while taking of from the Bel-Air dive-in air strip here last Friday.

One of the four riding in the plane sustained a slight facial cut, but all three others were uninjured. One of the men riding in the plane was Russell Bell, formerly of St. Ansgar.

The plane owned by H.R. Leibundguth of Cedar Falls, received considerable damage when the undercarriage struck some telephone wires about 50 feet off the end of the runway and crashed into the corn field owned by Edgar Fox. One wheel was ripped off and there was damage to one wing and the undercarriage.

 

St. Ansgar Enterprise - Thursday - July 16, 1964