Tim Sheehy makes emergency landing in Montana field after engine failure

The Republican senator was piloting the plane during a routine flight training exercise, his office said.

Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., made an emergency landing in a Montana field Friday while piloting a plane that experienced engine failure.

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The first-term senator was flying a private plane with one other person aboard when he landed near the town of Ennis, the Madison County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

Mike Berg, the senator’s chief of staff, said in a post on X that Sheehy was participating in a “routine flight training exercise which he completes twice a year.”