Wind turbine blade crashes down in corn field

A 140-foot long blade broke off a wind turbine at a central Illinois wind farm and crashed to the ground in a corn field more than 100 feet away.

Richard Shertz owns that turbine and three others in Wyanet, about 55 miles north of Peoria. He says no one was hurt and he shut down the turbines.

Suzlon Wind Energy made the turbines, and a company official says the blade broke away at a point where Suzlon has found cracks in many of its blades. The company says it's a design flaw and it's fixing blades around the country.

The American Wind Energy Association says wind turbine failures are relatively rare.