The plane crashed during a flight from Bend, Ore. to Vashon Island, Wash.
Author: Mike Benner
Updated: 10:33 AM PDT April 1, 2021
YACOLT, Wash. — Two friends were able to walk away from a plane crash in rural Clark County Monday afternoon with only minor injuries.
"A little scratch on my forehead," said Craig Beles. "A few scratches on my leg. Truman got a little more. A couple black eyes. That's it."
Beles was the passenger and co-pilot alongside his friend, Truman O'Brien, for a flight from Bend, Ore to Vashon Island, Wash.
Beles says shortly after crossing over the Columbia River into Washington, at an altitude of 8,000 feet, the engine on the four-seat aircraft started to cough. The plane started to descend.