RUTLAND - Rutland's homecoming queen was supposed to bring in the game ball on a helicopter. But instead of landing on the football field, the chopper went down in a corn field and Ashley Olson wound up with a bump on her head.

Rutland superintendent of schools Carl Fahrenwald said the school wanted to "have some fun with homecoming and make it a special event." A crowd waited Friday night for the helicopter to bring Olson and the football.

But the pilot, Brian Woldt, lost power and decided to make a "cautionary set down" in a corn field northwest of town. He suffered a cut to his ear and Olson's tiara cut her head.

School officials said Olson made it to the game, just a little late and a little shaken up.