Texas family uninjured after airplane crash

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December 28, 2009 8:20 AM

The Associated Press

ALEXANDRIA, La. — A Texas family escaped injury after their airplane lost power and went down in a field near central Louisiana's England Airpark.

Maj. Jerome Hopewell of the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office says it happened around 3 p.m. Sunday.

The pilot was identified as Brad McCullouch of Kerrville. The Town-Talk newspaper reports that the engine of his small plane cut out and McCullouch was forced to land the plane in a muddy field off Bayou Rapides Road. Upon landing the plane flipped over.

Hopewell said McCullouch and his passengers — wife, Mary Beth, and their 1-year-old daughter — already were out of the single-engine 1963 Piper Cherokee aircraft when authorities arrived on the scene. The family refused medical treatment.

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