Aircraft landed on a highway.
Aero Maintenance Inc
http://registry.faa.gov/N19298
Date: 22-APR-18
Time: 00:00:00Z
Regis#: N19298
Aircraft Make: CESSNA
Aircraft Model: 150L
Event Type: INCIDENT
Highest Injury: NONE
Aircraft Missing: No
Damage: UNKNOWN
Activity: INSTRUCTION
Flight Phase: EN ROUTE (ENR)
Operation: 91
City: VANCOUVER
State: WASHINGTON
The Washington State Patrol released the names of the people involved in landing a small propeller airplane on state Highway 14 on Saturday during a training flight out of Pearson Field Airport.
Instructor David M. Alexander, 35, of Portland made an emergency landing with trainee Trenton M. Morneault, 30, of Vancouver at 4:50 p.m. Saturday on the westbound highway at Milepost 3 just east of downtown Vancouver.
“They were coming in for a landing at Pearson when there was a mechanical or power failure,” said Washington State Patrol Trooper Will Finn. “They were already at a low altitude. That forced the instructor to take over the plane and perform an emergency maneuver. One of the wings clipped a highway sign and there was minor damage to the plane and the sign. Nobody was hurt and no other vehicles were involved.”
Nobody was injured, and the airplane was moved onto the right shoulder of the road almost immediately. State police and Clark Country Sheriff’s deputies were on hand within minutes. The right lane of the highway was partially blocked. William Gough, owner of Aero Maintenance Flight Center, which has offered flying lessons out of Pearson Field since 1980, was also on scene, Finn said.
Finn was unsure what the next steps are in investigating the emergency landing.
The airplane was a fixed-wing, single-engine Cessna 150L, manufactured in 1973, according to a Federal Aviation Administration aircraft registry.
http://www.columbian.com
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- A small airplane made an emergency landing on SR-14 Saturday evening.
An unknown power failure forced the pilot to land on the highway around 4:50 p.m. near the Columbia Way onramp.
Washington State Patrol spokesman Trooper Will Finn tweeted that there are no injuries and no vehicles were involved.
The plane was towed away just before 6 p.m. and the lane reopened.
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