https://www.columbian.com/news/2021...ve-crash-in-southwest-washington-forest/The Piper PA-32 Saratoga ultimately came to rest upside down in a heavily wooded area near Gumboot Mountain on the Clark/Skamania county line.
O’Brien said the two were hanging in their straps. They freed themselves, climbed out of the plane and checked themselves over for injuries. He only suffered a bump on his forehead and a scrape; Beles was fine, he said.
The Piper was equipped with an emergency locator transmitter that’s supposed to activate in a crash, but the relatively gradual landing wasn’t enough to set it off, O’Brien said.
He knew they needed to get the transmitter going, so they climbed up into the fuselage, removed the device and installed a small, mobile antenna to activate it.
Then, the two friends removed the plane’s seats and made themselves comfortable, sitting around a small fire they built using the plane’s battery and papers, and waited for rescuers. O’Brien said it was too wet to get much of a blaze going, but it produced a lot of smoke – which helped lead the rescuers to them.
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