CLARK COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) – A pastor in Lower Michigan was the man who died in a plane crash in central Wisconsin.
According to media reports from Michigan, a relative confirmed that Pastor Martin Siegwart of the Boon Baptist Church was killed in the crash.
It occurred late Monday morning near Owen in Clark County.
Boon is located near Cadillac in the northwest part of the Lower Peninsula. The pastor’s 27-year-old son, Mark Siegwart of Hammond Indiana, was in stable condition at a Marshfield hospital at last word.
The other passenger, 41-year-old Nathan Smooth of North Pole Alaska, was treated at the hospital and later released.
The two survivors had apparently just bought the single-engine Cessna 182 aircraft, and were flying back to Alaska from Hammond. They stopped at Cadillac to pick up Mark Siegwart’s father, the pastor.
The plane was about 8,000 feet in the air when the wings began to ice up — and as the pilot was about to land on a roadway, a wing clipped some tree branches and the craft crashed in a ditch.
The FAA said the plane had flown from Menominee Michigan, and was heading to Litchfield Minnesota when it went down. An investigation continues.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)