Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Kendall County

Update 2:30 p.m. Monday

According to a report in the Aurora Beacon News, the pilot of the plane was an 86-year-old man and his female passenger was 83. Both are from Mundelein, the paper reported. 

Original, 2:15 p.m. Sunday

A plane was forced to make an emergency landing Sunday morning near Little Rock, Illinois, in Kendall County, sending two people to the hospital.

The Kendall County Sheriff's Department said the plane, a two-passenger CTLS propeller plane, was en route from St. Louis to Waukegan when it had to make an emergency landing for still-undetermined reasons at 10:53 a.m. near Sedgewick Road west of Cook Road.

Two passengers, both adults, were taken to Valley West Hospital in Sandwich. One was transported for evaluation, while the other suffered minor injuries in the incident, police said.

The Little Rock-Fox Fire Protection District responded to the crash. 

A dispatcher from KenCom Public Safety Dispatch said the plane landed with its landing gear retracted. The aircraft was destroyed in the crash and investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration were en route to the scene late Sunday morning, according to KenCom dispatch transmissions. 

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was notified of the incident and will continue the investigation, police said.