State Police in Lee are investigating an ultra-light plane crash that occurred at about 8:26 a.m., at 4931 Lee Valley Road in Lee, Oneida County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Preliminary investigation has revealed 66-year-old Ronald S. Richards, Jr., from Blossvale, was operating a single-engine ultra-light when he appeared to have an engine failure and crashed the plane into the roof of an unoccupied building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Richards was transported via Mercy Flight to SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse with injuries to his legs. He is listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
State Police was assisted at the scene by Lee Fire Department and AmCare Ambulance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ultra-light crashes into building at air park in the town of Lee State Police in Lee are investigating an ultra-light plane crash that occurred at about 8:26 a.m., at 4931 Lee Valley Road in Lee, Oneida County. Preliminary investigation has revealed 66-year-old Ronald S. Richards, Jr., from Blossvale, was operating a single-engine ultra-light when he appeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[25497,25494,15481,25495,25496,25500,25499],"class_list":["post-112035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story","tag-blossvale-ny-news","tag-lee-ny-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-oneida-county-news","tag-oneida-county-ny-news","tag-ronald-s-richards-jr-blossvale-ny","tag-ultra-light-plane-crash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Glider-Crash-pic-2.jpg?fit=1280%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-t91","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}