Pilot found dangling upside-down 2 days after crash
Associated Press

BOISE, Idaho - A pilot missing for two days was found alive, dangling
upside-down in the wreckage of his single-engine plane in a heavily
forested area.
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Paul C. Herr, of Pasco, Wash., was in fair condition at St. Joseph
Regional Medical Center in Lewiston after his rescue Wednesday, a
nursing supervisor said.

Members of the sheriff's rescue unit had to rappel into the site in the
Clearwater National Forest from a helicopter, then use chain saws to
cut a landing pad.

"He was in a very steep area, and topographically it's really, really
rugged," sheriff's spokeswoman Trudy Slagle said.

Herr was making a final leg of the trip from Jackson, Wyo., to Pasco on
Monday when he reported engine failure over Idaho, state Transportation
Department spokesman Mel Coulter said.

Though air traffic controllers in Seattle tried to direct him to an
airstrip in Kooskia, Idaho - just 20 miles away - he never arrived.

Bad weather kept the rescue workers from carrying out an aerial search
until Wednesday.

Herr and his wife had gone to Iowa to visit grandchildren. Christine
Herr had taken a commercial flight while her husband flew the
40-year-old Piper 180 home solo.