WA - Plane Crash-Lands in Auburn

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Title: Plane Crash-Lands in Auburn

Wednesday, April 12, 2000

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF

A small plane apparently lost power over Auburn this afternoon and crash-landed -- almost in the lot of a car dealership. No one on the ground was seriously injured, and the plane's two occupants managed to walk way mostly unscathed.

The plane crash-landed shortly after taking off from Auburn Municipal Airport.

An FAA investigator photographs the scene of a plane crash in downtown Auburn. The plane hit several power poles before crashing into in a car dealership parking lot.

Mike Urban/P-I "The man next to me said, 'My God, that plane is flying too low," recalled Howard Kidd, who was looking out the window of the Auburn Volkswagen/Subaru dealership at the time. "Then it clipped a power pole in front of Valley Pontiac across the street, flipped upside down and crashed in the street -- 50 feet away."

Miraculously, no one along the usually busy "Auto Row" of Auburn Avenue North near North 30th Street was injured, authorities said. But power was knocked out to some businesses and the road was closed for several hours.

Mitch Barker, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the plane's pilot told an investigator the aircraft, a Cessna, lost power before it crashed.

http://www.seattle-pi.com/local/crsh121.shtml

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-- (Dee360Degree@aol.com), April 12, 2000


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