MANISTEE COUNTY, MI - A small aircraft crash landed into a cluster of trees Sunday morning in northeast Manistee County.

The pilot and passenger were both out of the plane when first responders arrived around 9:49 a.m. to the area off of Tomasek Road east of M-115 in Cleon Township.

Besides a minor ankle injury to the passenger from exiting the plane, no one was injured.

The pilot allegedly took off from Thompsonville Airport and after experiencing “some type of issue,” hoped to turn around and head back, said Cleon Township Fire Chief Mark Griner, noting the information was not completely confirmed.

When the pilot was unable to turn around, they decided to land in a large field, but instead crashed nose down into wooded area adjacent to the field. The plane crashed about a half mile a

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