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2 hospitalized after Dodge City plane crash

Wednesday plane crash near Dodge City. -photo courtesy KWCH
Wednesday plane crash near Dodge City. -photo courtesy KWCH

DODGE CITY, Kan. – The FAA and NTSB are investigating the cause of a small plane crash just after 9 a.m. on Wednesday in Ford County. Two people were injured.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported the 1969-fixed wing, single-engine Cessna piloted by Joseph M. Baker, 61, Wellington, was coming from the Wellington area and lost air speed.

The plane clipped some tree limbs and landed in a field just west of 114th Road on Lariat, just south of the airport in Dodge City.

Baker and a passenger, Stephanie L. Johnson, 43, Wichita, were transported to Western Plains Medical Center.

A third passenger, Clarence J. Sponsel II, 33, Haysville, was not injured.

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