Rare vintage plane crash-lands at Pullman airport
03:40 PM PDT on Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Associated Press


PULLMAN -- Two men walked away from the crash landing of a rare airplane at
the Moscow-Pullman Regional Airport Tuesday morning.

Spokesman Glenn Johnson says the 1929 Monocoach airplane, believed to be the
only one of its kind still flying, received about $15,000 damage.

The 74-year-old pilot, William Piper of Creston, British Columbia, and
72-year-old co-pilot Marv Vanderpool of Lake Havasu, Arizona, stopped to
refuel on their way from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to an airshow at McMinnville,
Oregon.

Vanderpool suffered a small cut on his arm.

Piper says a bolt came loose on the wheel assembly, prompting a crash
landing on grass off the main runway. Other pilots were still able to use
the runway.

Piper and friends spent about 10 years restoring the vintage aircraft,
estimated to be worth between $250,000 and $350,000. He says the plane will
be hauled away and fixed.


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