2 Bend residents hurt in small plane crash
Updated Mar 04, 2021;
SISTERS Two Bend residents were injured Wednesday when their single-engine plane hit a treetop and crashed in a field while trying to land at Sisters Eagle Airport, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said.
Deschutes County 911 dispatchers received a report just before 5:45 p.m. of a plane crash into a field, Sgt. Jayson Janes said, according to KTVZ.
Deputies arrived in about two minutes and learned two people had been in the plane at the time of the crash and got out on their own afterward, Janes said.
The pilot, a 23-year-old woman, was taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, Janes said.
Two Survive Plane Crash In Sisters
Two Bend residents escaped life threatening injuries after the small plane they were in crashed in Sisters. Emergency officials received the call around 5:43 p.m. Wednesday. The pilot, Madison Stieber, 23, was attempting to land at the Sisters Eagle Airport when she made contact with the landing strip and then went airborne again. The plane then flew to the southwest, over Camp Polk Road and struck the top of a tree, before striking the ground and coming to rest in a dry pond on private property in the 69000 block of Camp Polk Road.
Stieber was transported by private vehicle to St. Charles-Bend for non life threatening injuries. A passenger, Connor Schaab, 24, was treated on scene for minor injuries and was evaluated by medics from the Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Protection District at the scene and was not transported to the hospital. Both Stieber and Schaab had self extricated from the plane, prior to the arrival of Deputies and medics
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Brrmmmm. the sound of the engine roars to life as the small plane rumbles down the runway and ascends quickly into the sky. On board the 1971 Grumman Yankee AA-1A is longtime veteran pilot Kim Muinch and his fearless passenger, 16-year-old Lucas Tracy, a junior at Ridgeview High School in Redmond. Just a few miles away, 17-year-old Sisters High School senior Mary Root is completing her preflight checklist before taking the helm of a single-engine Cessna 120 tailwheel light aircraft. Lucas and Mary are not like other students their age. While the closest most teenagers get to a cockpit is via online video games, these two teens are part of the thriving youth aviation scene here in Central Oregon.