UNION COUNTY, N.C. — Officials said a plane crashed in Union County Saturday.
Troopers say 58-year-old Richard Schroll from Mayodan, North Carolina, crashed his small Ultralight plane in the middle of a pasture off Poplin Road.
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"Once I got here the actual pilot was laid out on the ground," Trooper Dustin Grieve said.
Troopers said Schroll was alert but they said he didn't know his name right after he crashed into this field. He was flown to the hospital.
A woman who happened to be driving by and saw it happen spoke to Channel 9. "It was just this plane and it was spiraling down from the sky," she said.
Richard Price owns the farm where the crash happened. "It's nothing on the weekends to have these little ultralights, little homemade rigs, flying through," Price said.
Schroll received a severe concussion.
According to a source in Union County the plane is leaking fuel, but not on fire.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.
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