Federal authorities, in a preliminary report, say a plane crash in west-central Idaho that killed an Idaho man and injured the Georgia pilot occurred when the pilot flew into a box canyon and crashed trying to get out.
The National Transportation Safety Board says the small plane stalled during the escape maneuver and crashed Sept. 2nd in a wilderness area about fifteen miles southeast of Cascade.
Fifty-year-old David Henderson of Boise died and 54-year-old Andrew Akin of Griffin, Georgia, had to be extracted by helicopter from the mountainous area.
Authorities say Griffin reported that he and Henderson, a cousin and also a pilot, planned to take the airplane to a backcountry airstrip.
(by Associated Press)
