Two pilots escaped unharmed in two unrelated plane crashes just hours apart in Butler County Thursday.
The first one occurred at 11:28 a.m. when a pilot was test-flying an experimental aircraft and lost control of the plane. Bobby J. Newsom, 70, Wichita, parachuted out of the 2008 fixed wing single engine Cessna, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.
The plane crashed in a field 160 feet south of 4651 Southwest 230th Road or just southwest of the Southwest 230th Road and Hopkins Switch Road Junction.
The second accident occurred shortly before 4 p.m as Ronald C. Brown was attempting to land at the Augusta airport. The plane lost all engine power and the 60-year-old Wichita pilot crash-landed in the 1978 single engine propeller Piper, the patrol reported.
