Doctor John Hershey's Cessna 152 drifted into the trees during a landing at the Cavanaugh bay airport near Coolin.
Hershey has been treating patients here and around the world for more than 30 years.
Doctor Hershey's former partner Dr. Tom Hull told KXLY what happened to him.
"All I know is he was making an approach for a landing and apparently something went wrong with the plane and he ended up in the trees as I understand it and then the plane fell from the trees," Dr. Tom Hull said.
Firefighters were able to remove Doctor Hershey from the wreckage.
He's expected to survive and that's welcome news here at the division street practice Hershey started decades ago.
"He is probably one of the nicest guys I've ever met. He genuinely likes people and he's just revered both here and New Guinea where he goes every year," Hull said.
Even though he is 86 years old, Doctor Hershey and wife travel regularly to New Guinea where the provide free medical services to people who would otherwise never see a doctor.
"This is out in the middle of nowhere and he does general surgery there and has quite a patient load and from what I've seen in pictures they've brought back he's highly respected there," Hull said.
KXLY profiled Doctor Hershey back in 1996 when he had a reputation for helping people who couldn't afford medical care.
Hershey never wanted his life -saving skills to go to waste even when he wasn't getting paid for them.
"I think he's just a totally selfless human being. I've seen that in here he genuinely thinks of helping people first and the minutia later or the economics later," Hull said, "He genuinely can't help being nice to people I think."
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