Here is the story. The picture shows a coupe with collapsed nose gear up on the nose and wingtip, with the prop bent back. Caption-An Ercoupe 415-C lies in a Preston County field where it crash-landed Monday. The owner, of Kentucky, left the scene and has not been heard from. DOWNED PLANE NEWEST PRESTON ATTRACTION There's nothing much to do in this Southern Preston County town: Watch the new bridge go up, see the occasional train go by or check out the classic plane that crashed near town. Residents of Scotch Hill, just outside town, heard two plaens overhead Monday. It soudned to them like two landed and one took off, but no one heard a crash, so they didn't call PReston 911 or police. There was a plane down, though, a Ercoupe 415-C. The pilot walked away after an emergency landing on a strip mine, reportedly called for a ride, and hasn't been seen since. Reports of the second plane have not been confirmed. Jim Peters, spoeksman for the FAA, said the FAA had a report of a landing for a 1946 Engineering and REsearch 415C at Scotch Hill at 1225pm Monday. The landing was caused by a collapsed nose gear on the airplane. (HUH?) From the Dominion Post July 7. Anyhow, the story goes on to tell how it has become a local curiosity and the plane hit a rusted railroad rail, throwing it to the side of the hill. The traffic is damaging the grass on the mine reclamation and they are looking to do something to get rid of the plane. The plane is N2072H?, Carroll Young of KY. Then it goes into a good history of the Ercoupe. Glen Ward
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