UPDATE: Pilot walks away from plane crash in Boyle County

BOYLE COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ) – A pilot walked away with no injuries after the small plane he was flying crashed just outside of Danville Sunday night, emergency management officials say. 

The crash happened just after 7 p.m. Sunday. Emergency management officials tell ABC 36 News that the struck some high tension wires and went down into some trees along Highway 127, just south of Danville. 

"We are very fortunate," Mike Wilder, the director of Boyle County’s emergency management says. The pilot was the only person on-board.

Wilder says small planes fly in and out of the Junction City airport all day long and it’s a rare occurrence for a crash. But less than three weeks ago,  Boyle County first responders rushed out to a different plane crash along Simpson Lane in Junction City.

"It’s probably been 15-to-20 years since we’ve had any kind of incident involving an airplane in Boyle County and we’ve had two in the last month," Wilder says. "We are getting our share."

In the crash three weeks ago, the pilot, who was the only person on-board, suffered non-life threatening injuries.

The Federal Aviation Administration will be sending a investigative team to the crash site Monday morning.