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Plane crash in Graham kills 1

Plane crash in Graham kills 1

Credit: Pierce County Sheriff's Department

A plane crash in Graham, Wash. on Thursday, July 29, 2010.

by KING 5 News

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Posted on July 29, 2010 at 12:28 PM

Updated Thursday, Jul 29 at 1:42 PM

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GRAHAM, Wash. –  A small airplane has crashed in a field near Kapowsin Field in Graham, Wash. this afternoon, killing one person and injuring another.

The Pierce County Sheriff's Department says neighbors reported seeing it do a barrel roll before going down in the area of 260th Street East and 150th Avenue East.

Sheriff's spokesman Det. Ed Troyer says one person is dead and another was airlfted.

Video from SkyKING shows the single-engine plane nose down in the field. Several sheriff's deputies and firefighters are investigating the scene.


 

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laidbackliz said on January 29, 2011 at 10:48 AM

you know you guys are jerks...these are friends of mine....

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washingtonian said on July 30, 2010 at 10:23 AM

Your heart might go out to the family but you sure run you stinking mouth fo rno reason @steventrahan.

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steventrahan said on July 29, 2010 at 8:46 PM

thanks for that clever insight washingtonian, you must be that 1 percent that can describe a barrel-roll. when you're done investigating this crash for FAA based off the information you've collected off of KING5 and kiro, why don't you go help those paramedics that have to pull his mutilated body out of that "aluminum" coffin. my heart goes out to the family.

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washingtonian said on July 29, 2010 at 2:56 PM

It's called aluminum @vandamme :) Kiro say's the plane is a Zenith 605, which I doubt because it's probably a Zenith 601. I also am dubious about the eye witness "barrel-roll" description, 99 out of a 100 people wouldn't even know how to describe a barrel roll. Supposedly this happened in a hard right turn just after takeoff, so points towards a wing-high stall I would guess, also if you look at the pics he clearly was rolling straight for sometime after touchdown (look at the flattened grass) and it looks at those the gear hit something and he flipped. Poor guy.

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vandamme said on July 29, 2010 at 1:46 PM

What's wrong with the plane? It looks like it's made out of duct tape.

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collegekid said on July 29, 2010 at 1:26 PM

freemonttroll, he's in jail.

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freemonttroll said on July 29, 2010 at 12:46 PM

Was it Colton Harris-Moore?

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