Girl says small plane 'barely missed' trees, crash landed near Hanover airport

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A small plane crash landed in a field and came to a stop in the yard of a home near the Hanover County Municipal Airport Saturday afternoon, according to officials.

State troopers were called to a "minor plane crash" in the 9500 block of Sliding Hill Road at 1:40 p.m., according to Virginia State Police Public Relations Director Corinne Geller.

An instructor pilot, a student pilot and two additional passengers were onboard a Cessna returning to the airport when the pilot realized the plane was not going to make it to the airstrip, Geller said.

Kyra Herring was headed home from a soccer game with her brother, Mason, and their mother when they spotted the plane.

"We were driving up the driveway... and I told my mom to stop because I saw the plane was not going to make it," Herring recalled.

Geller said the pilot managed to land the plane in a field near the airport, but that the Cessna's wings hit several pine trees during the descent.

"The plane just barely missed the top trees, like the very taller ones, and started going down into the neighbor's yard," Herring said.

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