Xref: utzoo rec.skydiving:1858 rec.aviation:32061 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!att!cbnewsh!hosmsb!msb From: msb@hosmsb.ATT.COM (Mike Balenger) Newsgroups: rec.skydiving,rec.aviation Subject: Re: Portland, OR jump plane wreck Message-ID: <1991Jan7.154921.10949@cbnewsh.att.com> Date: 7 Jan 91 15:49:21 GMT References: <1991Jan4.173433.19204@cbnewsh.att.com> Sender: msb@cbnewsh.att.com (michael.s.balenger) Reply-To: msb@hos1cad.ATT.COM (Mike Balenger) Distribution: rec Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories -- Holmdel, NJ Lines: 61 In-Reply-To: msb@hosmsb.ATT.COM's message of Fri, 4 Jan 91 17:34:33 GMT >>>>> On Fri, 4 Jan 91 17:34:33 GMT, msb@hosmsb.ATT.COM (Mike Balenger) said: msb> I got this little tid-bit in the mail from a friend in Portland. msb> Anyone else know more? Here's the whole text of the newspaper article in "The Oregonean", (I think). ================================================================ SKY DIVER KILLED, 2 BADLY HURT IN PLANE CRASH NEAR ESTACADA One passenger walks away after plane's engine stalls and the craft crashes into a stand of christmas trees ESTACADA, OREGON -- A sky diver from Clackamas died and two others, including the pilot, were seriously injured when their small plane crashed into a stand of Christmas trees shortly after taking off from an airstrip north of Estacada. A third passenger walked away with only bruses. The crash occurred shortly after 2 p.m. on December 31 at 30130 S.E. Farmstead Road after the plane left Beaver Oaks Airstrip, 29388 Heiple Road. William Partlow Jr., 53, of Clackamas was taken by Life Flight emergency helicopter to Emanuel Hospital & Health Center, where a nursing supervisor said he died while still in surgery at 7:45 p.m. of extensive abdominal injuries. Frank Sevcik, 40, a sky diver from Tigard, and Farrell Valliere, 40, a pilot from Portland, were taken by another Life Flight helicopter to University Hospital. An Oregon Health Sciences University admitting supervisor said that Sevcik was in critical condition Monday night with a spinal cord injury. Valliere was in serious condition with multiple fractures, she said. Scott Farmer, 30, a sky diver from Vancouver, Washington, was taken from the scene by ambulance to Mount Hood Medical Center in Gresham, where he was examined and released. A nursing supervisor said Farmer, who was sitting in the back of the plane behind the two front seats, suffered only bruises. Witnesses said the plane's engine sputtered several times and the pilot apparently was attempting to turn back toward the airstrip when the crash occurred. The plane had taken off from the Western Sport Parachute Club at the airstrip. Greg Linn of Estacada was visiting his father's house across Farmstead Road from the tree stand when he said he heard a plane's engine stall three times. Linn said he heard the engine kick in and saw the plane pulling out of a nose dive when it struck the trees. One man, dressed in sky-diving clothes, was thrown about 20 feet from the plane and was able to stand up and walk, he said. Linn said the man, apparently Farmer, pulled two other men from the pland, including the pilot. "He's the one who kept saying, 'Sorry guys,'" Linn said. Deputy Judy Gage, a Clackamas County sheriff's public information officer, said she was told by witnesses that the 1959 Cessna 182 was 400 to 500 feet in the air when the engine stalled. Authorities from the Federal Aviation Administration were called to the scene to investigate the accident. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael S. Balenger (908) 949-8789 AT&T Bell Labs FAX: (908) 949-7512 M_Balenger@att.com Room 1L-405 msb@hos1cad.att.com Crawfords Corner Road att!hos1cad!msb Holmdel, NJ 07733-1988