UPDATED @ 6:00 PM 3:31 PM DEVELOPING Airplane Crash Barbour County

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Apr 20 2021 3:34 PM

BARBOUR COUNTY:    3:31 PM    Emergency Units in Barbour County are responding to an airplane crash in Barbour County.

Reports are the crash is near the Alabama Rest Area on Highway 431 in Barbour County.

Eufaula Fire, Eufaula Police, Barbour County Sheriff Deputies scrambling to the scene.

UPDATED @ 3:38 PM   

The emergency units have had cell phone contact with the pilot and appears OK. The emergency units are attempting to gain access to the plane at this time.

UPDATED @ 6:00 PM    

The pilot is OKAY. The pilot is reported to have refused medical treatment on the scene. 

Reports are the pilot had to make an emergency landing and spotted a hay field and set the plane down.

Reports are once the pilot set the plane down he struck a barwire fence and that fliped the plane over.

The pilot was able to crawl from the plane and call 911, giving them the coordinates of where he was located.

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