looks like an RV (Van's Aircraft)
any reports why the engine quit?

BT

"gatt" wrote in message
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http://koin.com/Global/story.asp?S=6018883

Bummer, but he's alive. He'd just purchased the plane this morning,
coming to Troutdale (probably for fuel) and had to make an emergency
landing in a suburb about a mile or so from the runway. To the west is
Blue Lake (shallow) and to the east toward the airport is a bunch of
fields but the terrain is broken and being developed. A local pilot would
probably know where to put it down off the street, but this guy did
alright.

This is about a mile from my house. I can tell if it's a good flying day
by the amount of planes flying overhead. Rwy 07 faces straight into mouth
of the Columbia River Gorge so he might have found himself facing a sudden
20mph gusting headwind turning final.