Reportedly Contacted Nearby Residents, Then Disappeared

The pilot of a 1946 Luscombe 8A airplane reportedly vanished after he crash-landed his airplane near a farmhouse in rural York County, PA.

Television station WPMT reports that the plane went down near Baublitz Commercial Airport in Brogue, PA on Tuesday about 300 feet from the house. Robert Good, a worker on the Amish farm where the plane went down, said that the pilot, who has not been identified, knocked on the farmhouse door and asked for help moving the plane down the hill from where it came to a stop. He said after the plane was moved, he walked up the hill to call for a cab, and he has not been seen since.

FAA records indicate the Luscombe is owned by Bel Air, MD attorney Douglas Jones. It is now known whether Jones was flying the airplane at the time of the accident.

The York Daily Record reports that the plane appears to have struck some telephone wires while it was attempting to land.

Baublitz was founded as a private airport in 1958. It was opened for public use in the mid 1970s.

Messages left on an answering machine at Jones' law office have not been returned.

(Image from file. Not accident airplane)

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