UPDATE: Two sent to Seattle hospital after plane crashes at golf course near Port Townsend
Published 2:38 pm Monday, September 28, 2015
PORT TOWNSEND — Two people were airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with serious injuries Monday after their small plane crashed onto Discovery Bay Golf Course.
The plane, a two-seater Cessna-type craft, crashed into the brush near the 17th hole at around 1:20 p.m., according to Bill Beezley, East Jefferson Fire-Rescue spokesman.
The two occupants, a man and a woman, were trapped in the plane and were extricated using the Jaws of Life by East Jefferson Fire-Rescue personnel, Beezley said.
Beezley declined to identify the occupants, citing East Jefferson Fire-Rescue policy.
Two Airlift Northwest helicopters landed on the 17th fairway of the golf course about 4 miles south of Port Townsend and took the people to Harborview.
The scene was cordoned off, and firefighters used a water and foam spray to neutralize the hazard from leaking airplane fuel.
No one on the ground was injured in the crash.
A witness said the plane engine had stuttered and it appeared to lose power before crashing, Beezley said.
East Jefferson Fire-Rescue Chief Gordon Pomeroy held a conference call with the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board to share identifying information from the plane fuselage and details of the wreck.
Investigators from the FAA arrived on the scene in the afternoon to conduct an investigation into the crash, according to Jefferson County Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Stringer.
Firefighters from Port Ludlow Fire & Rescue assisted with the response.
