PLEASANTON- Two people died in a small plane crash just before 6 p.m. on Tuesday in Linn County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2006-fixed wing single engine Light Sport Zodiac piloted by Herbert Lewis Siegel, 67, Stillwell, took off northbound from a private grass airstrip two miles northwest of Pleasanton and became airborne for approximately 50 feet.
The plane drifted to the west striking the tops of trees and crashed into a wooded area.
Siegel and a passenger Brian Clark Decker, 57, Independence, Mo., were pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Frontier Forensics.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.