BUTLER COUNTY – For the second time in as many days, officials in Butler County responded to report of an aircraft accident.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported just before 2 p..m. on Saturday, a 2013 Zenith fixed-wing aircraft piloted by Samuel S. McNair, 52, Wichita, was attempting to land on a grass runway at 1651 SE Main Street in the unincorporated Butler County community of Beaumont.

The plane encountered strong crosswind and made a hard landing.

The front landing gear collapsed and the aircraft flipped.

McNair and a passenger Gary L. Frost, 56, Wichita, were not transported to treatment.

The accident remains under investigation.

On Friday night a 61-year-old man died when his Gyrocopter crashed near Whitewater.