A hay field in Penn Forest Township served as a landing site for a Piper airplane at 1 p.m. Monday when Greg Cibik of Norristown, a former Jim Thorpe resident, brought down the aircraft on the field in close proximity to Behrens Dairy in the township.

Cibik was forced to land the plane after he experienced what he believed to be a mechanical malfunction.

Josiah “Cy” Behrens II, owner of the property, was a witness to the landing, saying he was in the process of preparing nearby land when the plane circled overhead and made the landing.