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Pilot dies in crash near Kearney

The 79-year-old pilot of a small plane died after the plane crashed in a soybean field near Kearney. Fox 4 says the pilot of the plane landed at the Midwest Regional Air Center to refuel, and the plane went down in the field shortly after the pilot flew out of the airport. Emergency responders said the plane carried 140 gallons of fuel at the time of the crash, and the plane burst into flames went it crashed. The pilot has been identified as Alan “Doug” Moler of Valley Center, Kansas. The man was reportedly headed to an airport in Wichita.

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