FAA to investigate engine-failure landing of Cessna in Mercer County field

UPDATE @ 4 a.m. (July 13): The FAA will send an investigator to Mercer County to determine what led to the reported engine failure that forced a Greenville pilot to make an emergency landing in a soybean field Thursday afternoon.

Roger Trump, 61, told authorities he was spraying a field when he force-landed the 1979 Cessna A188B about 4:50 p.m. in the field northwest of Erastus Durbin and Rockford West roads near Rockford, according to the Wapakoneta Post, Ohio State Highway Patrol, which is the investigating agency.