A man who called himself the owner of the Piper aircraft that came down on Highway 16 near Pipe Creek earlier this month in an emergency landing reemphasized last week the emergency sprang from an onboard electric fire, not a “fuel starvation” issue as some had speculated. The man did not identify himself and would not discuss the mishap in more detail on Thursday, Jan. 16, as a crew with Lone Star Retrieval examined the plane, still parked off the road on Highway 16 near Bear Creek Road five days after the forced landing. An investigator with the Federal Aviation Ad ministration ...