Two Seriously Hurt in Emergency Plane Landing in Southwest Wisconsin

Two people are being treated for serious injuries suffered when their plane crashed in southwest Wisconsin near Viroqua.  The Vernon County Sheriff’s Office says the plane crashed Thursday afternoon near U-S Highway 14 and County Road Y.  Deputies say 70-year-old Alton Akers of Idaho was flying with his 41-year-old son Cabe from Chicago to the E-A-A Oshkosh Air Show.  Their 1940 fixed-wing airplane experienced engine problems and they tried to make an emergency landing at the Viroqua Municipal Airport.  The plane’s wheels sunk in a field and it flipped over.  Both victims got out of the wreckage and were taken to a hospital in Vernon and later transferred to Gundersen Health System.