(AP) — The pilot and passenger of a small plane are uninjured after an emergency landing near a huge housing development in St. Charles County.

The single-engine plane landed at 12:20 p.m. Friday in a field near the development known as New Town. Authorities say the pilot was trying to land at Smartt Field but made a distress call and put down in the field. It wasn’t immediately clear what prompted the need for the emergency landing.