PORT ANGELES – A small home-built airplane crashed near Blue Mountain Road, about a mile south of U.S. Highway 101 on Friday morning.
The yellow craft came to rest with its tail in the air and one wing mostly torn off.
The pilot, a 40-year-old Sequim man, walked away from the 7:30 a.m. crash and initially went home rather than seeking medical treatment, said a Clallam County Sheriff’s Department press release.
Sheriff’s deputies learned where he lived and sent an ambulance to his house.
He was eventually treated at Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles for cuts and bruises, the press release said.
The sheriff’s department declined to release the man’s name, citing his privacy and saying the crash was not a criminal matter.
The pilot told the sheriff’s department that he was flying at about 700 feet when his engine quit and could not be restarted.
He flew the plane between two sets of power lines and poles without striking any of the lines, he said, before his crash landing.
The aircraft was manufactured by Avid Aircraft, a small Montana company that sells ultralight and experimental aircraft in kits that pilots can build themselves.
The airplane had a single engine and prop with a high fixed wing.
