A small plane carrying a pilot crashed in a corn field off Norfield Road near Sonora Road east of Zanesville around 4 p.m.

According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the pilot lost power and had to undergo an emergency landing in which he was uninjured.

“He’s indicating that he had some engine failure, engine trouble with his aircraft and was forced to put it down here off in this farm field,” Ohio State Highway Patrol Sergeant Jeffrey P. Jirles said.

Jacob Havens, the 24 year-old pilot from Findlay, Ohio, said he was flying for fun to take photos of his aircraft with his friend, who works for Zanesville Aviation. He noticed the single-person plane he was flying had half power.

“I made a bee-line for the airport, asked everyone to get out of my way and then after that my power setting kind of just went less and less and less,” Havens, who has been a pilot for 7 years, said. “It dropped to about 20 rpm a second from that point on.”

The pilot said he hit the top of the corn in the field at roughly 45 miles per hour. The nose of the plane hit the ground first and the aircraft flipped onto its top. Havens was able to freely move around the cockpit but was unable to exit the plane as the aircraft was surrounding him.

Jirles described the aircraft as “totaled” with “damage to all areas.”

Havens was flying a new experimental plane called a “Quickie,” which is a Q1 model, that he’s owned for about eight months. He currently lives in Northern Kentucky.

“I think my buddy is going to take me flying home and I need to fly, so I’m going to fly the plane home,” Havens said. “I need to get back up and do it before I get nervous.”

Y-City News Reporters on the scene said Morgan, Perry and Washington Township Fire Departments are on scene, along with New Concord FD, OSP and Zanesville Aviation.

The aircraft is anticipated to be recovered from the corn field some time tomorrow due to low accessibility to the scene of the crash, Jirles said.