Crash near Tea airport blamed on engine failure
Story By: The Associated Press. Copyright 2010
TEA, S.D. - The crash of a single-engine plane east of the Lincoln County airport, which killed the pilot, has been attributed to engine failure.
Lincoln County emergency management director Harold Timmerman says Tate Baloun of Sioux Falls had been working on the plane's engine before he took it up Friday night. Once in the air, Timmerman says, the engine failed and Baloun couldn't make it back to the airport.
Terry Anderson of the Lincoln County sheriff's office says the plane took off from the airport in Tea about 8 p.m. Friday and crashed a short time later in a cornfield about a half-mile away.
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