A Port Angeles doctor and his brother escaped unhurt after they made an emergency landing of their floatplane in an old mining pit filled with water near Virginia, Minn.
The plane wasn’t damaged after the surprise landing on Sunday, according to the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Department.
Randell Bauman, 62, an obstetrics and gynecology physician with Olympic Medical Center’s Women’s Clinic, and his brother, Loren Bauman, 52, of Lewisville, N.C., were flying the single-engine plane to Washington state.
The plane started to run out of fuel in the late morning. Sheriff’s deputies found it floating in a pit once worked by a U.S. Steel plant.
“They won’t be able to fly it out of there,” Deputy McKenzie said, adding that arrangements would have to be made to tow it out.