WALTERVILLE — A Texas man escaped injury Saturday when his biplane overturned in the McKenzie River after he made an emergency landing on the waterway.
John Proctor, 65, was flying a biplane equipped with floats when he landed on the river near the Bellinger boat landing just before 8 a.m. According to a Lane County Sheriff’s Office report, he was heading for Detroit Lake but had to look for an alternate landing site due to fog.
He landed in the river but one of the pontoon floats apparently struck submerged debris and was punctured. The front end of the plane then sunk up to the cockpit.
People along the river saw Proctor standing on the tail end of the plane above the water and called 911. A sheriff’s office search and rescue boat was able to reach the plane and get him off.
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