Troopers said 58-year-old Edward T. Merren, of Wasilla, took off from a grass airstrip near Meadow Lakes Drive and Tulakes Road in a Taylorcraft when a crosswind gust forced the aircraft into nearby trees.
Troopers and emergency medical services responded to the scene, then summoned Matanuska Electric Association, which used a boom truck to rescue Merren from the stranded plane. Merren was uninjured in the incident, troopers said.
3 comments:
This showed up in local news feeds. Simply amazing!
Be sure and tell how they get the plane out of the trees. Quite interesting and glad the pilot was not injured.
threecollie, understood. It's a bit unusual, even for Alaska. :)
JMD, I'll pass on whatever info they make available.
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