PLANE MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING NEAR CAPE

A pilot and his passenger were unharmed when their two-seat aircraft made an emergency landing Saturday afternoon in northern Scott County, the Scott County Sheriff's Department said.

About 5:30 p.m., the pilot of an old PT-13 Stearman reported problems when he was flying into Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. Lindsey D. Bredemeyer, 37, of Houston, Texas, was forced to land his airplane in a cornfield about one mile south of the airport.

It was later determined that the aircraft had a fuel problem.

Both Bredemeyer and his passenger, Vernon J. Main Jr., 77, of New Orleans, La., were able to walk away from the landing.

The plane had left Houston, Texas, earlier on Saturday en route to Chicago. The pilot had planned to spend the night in Cape Girardeau.

The open-cockpit PT-13 was built between 1934 and 1945, and used by the armed forces as a training aircraft for new pilots.