Plane clips truck on Ohio 53

Update today, 7:56 p.m.BALLVILLE TWP. — A Fremont man bringing his plane in for a landing clipped a semitrailer driving north on Ohio 53, forcing the airplane to land on its belly.The crash happened about 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Fremont Airport.A wheel sticks out of the top of a semi-trailer on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. An airplane clipped the semi-trailer and crashed at the Fremont Airport. No injuries were reported.Nobody was injured as a result of the incident, including the truck's driver."I was just driving down Ohio 53, and I heard a boom," said Russ Street, a driver for the Sandusky-based South Shore Transportation. "It rocked the trailer. I thought the semi was going over."Street was coming back from a delivery in Indiana, and his trailer was empty."I thought I might have blown a couple tires," he said.After clipping a semi-trailer, an airplane lies in the grass of the Fremont Airport on Tuesday, May 9, 2017.Street pulled into the airport to find landing gear and a tire sticking out of the top of the torn-up trailer.He saw the plane landing on the runway on its "belly," a term pilots use whenever a plane's landing gear isn't fully extended and its underside acts as a primary landing device."I thought I had seen everything," said Street, who's been employed with South Shore Transportation for 20 years.A state trooper talks to the driver of a semi-trailer that was clipped by an airplane near the Fremont Airport on Tuesday, May 9, 2017.John Randall, 71, of Fremont, was piloting his Piper airplane on a practice flight, according to Trooper Donte Hanns, from the Ohio State Highway Patrol's Fremont post."He left from Fremont airport and went out for 25 to 28 minutes before he came back," Hanns said.Randall is an experienced pilot with 3,500 hours of flight time, Hanns said.It's not known what caused Randall to come into the airport low enough to strike the semitrailer.The Federal Aviation Administration was contacted and is expected to send investigators to the Fremont Airport on Wednesday.Pieces of metal hang from the inside of a semi-trailer after being clipped by an airplane near the Fremont Airport on Tuesday, May 9, 2017.=-=-= Update today, 4:30 p.m.: The landing gear of a plane attempting to land at the regional airport clipped a semi tractor trailer traveling on Ohio 53 just south of Fremont at about 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sandusky County Sheriff Chris Hilton said. "The plane crashed after it hit the truck and knocked it over," Hilton said. "The landing gear was ripped off and imbedded in the semi." There were no injuries reported. *Original post, today 4:20 p.m.A plane landing at the Fremont Airport clipped a semi-tractor trailer on Ohio 53 south of Fremont, Sandusky County Sheriff Chris Hilton reported. "Our dispatch was contacted and the truck is still on the highway," Hilton said. We're en route there now." The local state Highway Patrol post also was being dispatched to the scene, the sheriff said. *Check back here for updates.An airplane rests in the grass of the Fremont Airport after clipping a semi-trailer and crashing on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. No injuries were reported.A wheel of an airplane that crashed lies on the ground at the Fremont Airport on Tuesday, May 9, 2017.An airplane clipped the top of a semi-truck and crashed at the Fremont Airport on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. No one was injured.