FAA Investigating Crash

— An investigator from the Federal Aviation Administration was in Rogers on Monday to determine what caused a Sunday night single-engine airplane to crash, according to airport officials.

None of the four people aboard were injured, authorities said.

Police and firefighters were called to the Rogers Municipal Airport-Carter Field at 7:54 p.m.

Pilot Rodney Graham, 53, of Fyffe, Ala., told police at approximately 2,800 feet, he felt a lift under the plane , then felt the plane sink back down.

As he was preparing to land, he was trying to hold the plane steady at 500 feet facing south, according to a police report. Graham reported at approximately 100 feet above the ground, the nose was up and the landing gear down.

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