gatt wrote:
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.

gatt, call your local news station and give them an atta'boy for not saying
the engine stalled.