World Photo by Lou Sennick
Pilot Herman Pahls, third from left, talks with volunteers with the Millicoma Fire Department Friday morning near his bush plane after having to make an emergency landing in a field. Pahls and his plane are OK, he ran out of gas and the plane is designed to land in rough fields.
A Coquille pilot made an emergency landing in a field near the Coos River and Catching Slough this morning.
Herman Pahls, of Coquille, was flying his small kit-built bush plane when he ran out of fuel at about 9 a.m. He said he was talking with the control tower at the Southwest Oregon Regional Airport to report the emergency and his safe landing.
A pilot for 33 years, Pahls said he landed safely in the field off Catching Slough Road and had the wings on his aircraft folded up and was pulling it toward the road when firefighters and Coos County sheriff's deputies arrived on the scene.
The original call said he had landed in the water.
Pahls said the plane is designed to fold up and travel on a trailer. He said he probably could fly it out of the field, but will transport it back to the airport and have it checked out first.
Source: http://theworldlink.com
COOS BAY, ORE.- An emergency landing this morning ended with the pilot walking away from his aircraft.
At about 9 a.m the Coos County Sheriffs Office responded to a call of a bush plane making a hard landing across Catching Slough near the Sauce Brothers dock.
33 year old Coquille pilot, Herman Pahls contacted the control tower at the Southwest Oregon Regional Airport to report he had ran out of fuel and needed to make the emergency landing.
Eventhough the original call led Sheriffs to believe the plan had landed in the water, upon arrival they found Pahls was out of his aircraft and pulling it towards the road.
Sergeant Pat Downing with the Coos County Sheriffs Office says the pilot received a lift to the airport.
There, he picked up his truck and trailer to transport his plane back to the airport to have it checked out.
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