Des Moines station offers more information on crash that killed Kellenbergers

KCCI in Des Moines has more details on the Sunday plane crash that killed Mr. and Mrs. Orlan Kellenberger of Lamar:

Carroll County Sheriff Doug Bass said the plane was coming from the Algona airport. The pilot and passenger had been visiting family in the West Bend area and were believed to be heading back to Missouri, said Bass. The plane went down near the town of Lidderdale around 5:30 p.m.
The Arthur Neu Airport in Carroll is about three miles from the crash site, but Bass said the pilot did not radio the airport as far as he knows.Airport manager Don Mensen said that's not unusual that the airport wasn't contact. He said in an emergency situation the pilot's first priority is to determine what's wrong."If he's having an issue that's what he's doing. He's trying to keep the airplane upright and fly the airplane, which is what he should have been doing," said Mensen.The investigation was slowed down Monday by wet conditions and the wide debris field scattered for about a half mile across two farm fields.