Pilot in West Fargo crash slowly recovering

Photo by: WDAY Radio Staff
Photo by: WDAY Radio Staff

(Fargo, ND) -- A pilot who crashed in a West Fargo soybean field is slowly recovering.  

Jeffrey Kloster was trying to land his single engine Cessna in August when witnesses say his engine cut out, leading him to clip a tree and nosedive into the ground. Kloster was hospitalized with broken bones and vertebrae and a spinal cord leak for nearly a month before being transferred home to a rehab facility in Nebraska.  

His family says he is beginning to take small steps towards recovery, and again has mentioned how lucky his is to be alive.