DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Federal aviation officials say a small plane that crashed in a corn field in northwest Iowa, killing all three Wisconsin men on board, was low on fuel. In a report last week, the National Transportation Safety Board says the single-engine Piper had two 25-gallon fuel tanks. After the crash, investigators drained 1 cup of fuel from the tank under the left wing and 2½ cups from the tank under the right wing.
The plane crashed on June 23 near Sheldon in O'Brien County. The three men on board, Francis Allegretti, of Cambridge, Wisconsin, Thomas Boos, of Fort Adkinson, Wisconsin and Malcolm McMillan, of Milton, Wisconsin, were flying from Fort Adkinson to South Dakota on a hunting trip.