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Published December 30. 2020 1:20PM
By GLENN CHENEY
Special to The Times
On Saturday, Sept. 23, 1939, a small biplane sustained engine-related problems in the sky over eastern Connecticut. Unable to reach an airport, the pilot decided to set down in a cow pasture on Hanover-Versailles Road in Sprague, just above the Little River.
The pilot, Otto E. van Schaik, did a pretty good job of coming in for a landing. The land wasn’t flat, and there were probably a few cows hanging around.
The plane came in slow, bouncing enough to damage the landing gear. As it lurched to a stop in the pasture grass, it tipped forward and bent its propeller. Quite a bit of smoke arose form the scene, but there was no major fire.