gatt writes:

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.

This is a new aircraft and the engine fails on the first flight?
Something is not right.

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