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 Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:05 am Post subject: Long time Seaplane pilot dead |
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2 Die in Oregon Float Plane Crash
Sunday July 29, 2007 10:31 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A small float plane crashed into the Willamette River
in Oregon, killing two people, including an accomplished flight instructor,
authorities said.
David Howard Wiley, 80, a former National Seaplane Pilot of the Year, was
one of the two men who died shortly before noon Saturday when the vintage
1941 Taylorcraft float plane crashed just north of Willamette Falls.
The identity of the other man was being withheld pending notification of his
family.
Witnesses said the two-passenger, single-engine plane took off from the
river, rose about 75 feet, wobbled in the air and then began a steep turn to
the left before the left wing broke off.
Clackamas County sheriff's spokesman Jim Strovink said people who saw the
crash told him the plane took off in an ``unstable fashion.''
It was unclear if Wiley, a certified instructor and mechanic who runs
Wiley's Seaplanes, was piloting the plane.
In 2000, Wiley, an aviation safety counselor for the Portland Flight
Standards Division Office, was designated a master certified flight
instructor by the National Association of Flight Instructors. He was named
National Seaplane Pilot of the Year in 1999.
The Federal Aviation Administration was investigating.
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