Pilot OK after crash landing
ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — A 69-year-old pilot walked away from a crash landing in the Willamette Valley.
The Albany Democrat-Herald reports that Jim Sieminski maneuvered his plane between a house and barn Friday morning after he ran into trouble on takeoff from a runway at Tallman southeast of Albany.
He told the paper his single-engine plane ran into a crosswind, made a sharp turn and clipped some trees.
As the plane came down, it busted through two fences, hit a shoulder on a roadway that sheared off a wheel, and finally came to rest in a grass seed field about a quarter mile from the runway.
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Information from: Albany Democrat-Herald, http://www.dhonline.com
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Glad the pilot is OK. Cross winds can be nasty on a small plane.
The plane kind of looks like "Flopsy the Rabbit" in the crash pictures with it's wings drooping. Kind of looks sad.