MONEE, Ill. (AP) — A pilot is dead after a small plane he was flying crashed into a cornfield near a small northern Illinois airport.

Will County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Kathy Hoffmeyer says the single-engine plane had just taken off from Bult Field near the community of Monee and was trying to land there when one witness said the aircraft sounded like it was having engine trouble before it spun out of control and crashed.

Nobody else was injured an the pilot has not been identified.

Hoffmeyer says investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration are at the scene trying to determine the cause of the crash.