A small plane landed safely in a Denmark Township field Friday afternoon. Two adults were aboard, and the sheriff's office reported no injuries.
The call came just after 4 p.m., about a possible crash near 100th Street South and Manning Avenue South. Washington County sheriff's deputies and Cottage Grove police found the aircraft in a field near the intersection, CBS Minnesota reported.
Officials said the plane was not damaged and has been released to its owner. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were notified. FlightAware data cited by CBS Minnesota showed a 2:49 p.m. departure from Rushford Municipal Airport.
The Pioneer Press reported that the reason for the emergency landing was not immediately clear, and that the landing was not related to the FAA's decision to ground flights nationwide around 5 p.m. Friday. The agency later described the stop as a "temporary telecommunications outage," KSTP reported.
The day's disruption ran well past one Washington County field. FlightAware counted 9,159 cancellations and 7,190 delays in the United States on Friday, CBS News reported. At Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where the grounding brought departures to a halt, 126 of 428 scheduled flights were canceled by evening, the Star Tribune reported.
