WYNDMERE, N.D. (AP-NDHP) — A worker with the USDA Wildlife Services program and a contractor suffered minor injuries in a plane crash in southeastern North Dakota.

The Highway Patrol says the plane went down in a field near Wyndmere, 15 miles west of Colfax, ND.  The Richland County Sheriff’s Office and Wyndmere Fire and Rescue also responded to the scene, on Thursday morning at 8:46. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said it was a single-engine Piper 18 PA-18.

USDA spokeswoman Tanya Espinosa says the plane belonged to a contractor working with Wildlife Services. She says the two men aboard were taken to Sanford Hospital in Fargo “for evaluation of minor injuries.”

The names of the men weren’t immediately released.

Espinoza says the agency is working with state and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) determine what happened.

 

Previously…

WYNDMERE, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol says a small plane has gone down in a field in Richland County.

Sgt. Wade Kadrmas says the two occupants were taken to a Fargo hospital for evaluation, but appeared to be OK. The plane went down in a field near Wyndmere Thursday morning.

Kadrmas says the plane belongs to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which was on scene.