New Rockford Transcript - Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

UPDATED 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19

At approximately 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19, a fatal airplane crash occurred south of New Rockford, N.D.

According to Eddy County Sheriff Paul Lies, several witnesses traveling on Highway 281 reported seeing the plane crash into a cornfield west of the highway, and just a few yards north of the Eddy-Foster County border.

The plane was reportedly travelin...