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Wheat a way to make a landing.

A 47-year-old pilot was forced to ditch his plane in a cornfield when his engine cut out on his way to an airport in Wulpke, Germany.

Farmworkers scattered for cover when the light aircraft came hurtling in for an emergency landing just a few hundred yards short of the runway.

But both the pilot Hannes Gruber and his 40-year-old passenger walked away from the crash unharmed - although the Kiebitz class plane suffered nearly 10,000 GBP of damage.

"He was heading straight for the airport and all of a sudden he dropped like a stone," said one farmer.

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