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Small Plane Crashes In Northern Indiana County

By Scott Sarvay
August 19, 2010 Updated Aug 19, 2010 at 5:28 PM EDT

About 11:15 Thursday morning a small Cessna airplane crashed near 400 E. and 450 S. in LaGrange County.

The pilot, 53-year-old Robert Ostmo of North Dakota, told investigators he noticed he was losing altitude and decided to make an emergency landing.

During the plane's decent the left wing clipped a telephone pole, shearing the wing partially off, causing a fire.

Witnesses tell police that once the plane hit the ground the plane burst into flames.

Ostmo, and his 54-year-old wife, Terryl suffered minor injuries...but a horse was injured during the landing and had to be euthanized.



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