Man, dog rescued after plane
crash
June 04, 2006
Sunday
A man and his dog are safe Friday evening after the Coast Guard
rescued them following a plane crash on Montague Island in Alaska.
While making his approach to a
grassy Montague Island landing strip located southwest of
Valdez, the pilot of a Cessna 182 experienced sudden
engine failure. The craft's nose wheel caught hard
in the ground, and his plane flipped hard over.
A Cessna 182 lies crumpled
in the grass near a landing strip on Montague Island, southwest
of Valdez. The Cessna crashed when the engine suffered a malfunction,
the nose wheel caught and the plane flipped hard over. The craft's
occupants, a pilot and his dog, escaped harm and were transported
safely to Valdez.
Official Coast Guard photo courtesy of Air Station Support Facility
Cordova
Both the pilot and his lone companion, a search and rescue dog
in-training buckled safely into the next seat, were able to evacuate
the cockpit of the Cessna.
At approximately 2:20 p.m,
the Coast Guard's North Pacific Search Command here received
reports from both the Cessna's Electronic Position Indication
Radio Beacon (EPIRB) and it's Emergency Location Transmitter
(ELT). An HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter from the forward-deployed
support facility in Cordova was on scene twenty minutes
later.
A Coast Guard air crewmember
escorts the pilot of a downed Cessna and his dog toward a waiting
HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter on Montague Island Friday. The Cessna
crashed when the engine suffered a malfunction, the nose wheel
caught hard and the plane flipped over hard just short of the
island's landing strip.
Official Coast Guard photo courtesy of Air Station Support Facility
Cordova
"The pilot and his dog were seen on the beach a short time
later by a Good Samaritan in the vicinity aboard the fishing
vessel Servant," said Coast Guard Lt. Larry Quedado, one
of the Jayhawk's pilots. "Fortunately, the weather
at the time was favorable."
Both pilot and dog were transported
to Valdez, with no reports of injuries.
The cause of the engine malfunction
is unknown.
Source of News & Photos:
United States Coast Guard
http://www.uscg.mil
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