MORTON, Wash. A single-engine plane carrying two people has crashed near a house close to Morton, Wash., southwest of Mount Rainier.
Lewis County sheriff’s deputies say the Cirrus SR22 clipped several trees before crashing into the driveway of a house along State Highway 508 west of Morton on Friday evening.
A man was reported dead at the scene. A seriously injured woman has been airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, arriving about 10 p.m. Neither was immediately identified.Witness Jim Ecklund tells KOMO-TV the low-flying plane flew over his house and crashed near his neighbor’s home. He says the plane was low enough for him to see the pilot. Then he heard a loud boom.The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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