Looks like a really close call. Obviously glad to hear they are ok!

http://www.localnews8.com/news/small-plane-crashes-into-snake-river-near-irwin/34963052

Now with the link...

http://www.localnews8.com/news/small-plane-crashes-into-snake-river-near-irwin/34963052

Holy cow! Glad they're ok!

A Maule....anyone we know???

Man, it's great news nobody got hurt bad.....that one's got a lot of potential. Since most of my flying life was in Alaska where there aren't many wires, those things scare the crap outta me.

Congratulations to these two on dodging that bullet.

MTV

I had a few maule's and the wingtip and landing light position are not maule. Glad they are ok.

I'm guessing a husky.... Glad they are OK

It's a Husky. Names not released yet.

The FAA Prelim Report listed it as a Husky.

Flynengr

Yeah, the tips and the landing light fooled me, but it does look like late Husky....ouch in any case. Not that easy to get out of a Husky in the water I'm guessing....

MTV

mtv wrote:Yeah, the tips and the landing light fooled me, but it does look like late Husky....ouch in any case. Not that easy to get out of a Husky in the water I'm guessing....

MTV

It's not easy to get out of a Husky when parked on the ramp.

Hitting wires in flight is one of my worst nightmares.

Very lucky guys!

I only hit wires three times spraying. The first I didn't see but suspected. It was at the end of a long narrow valley. I found no poles, in the trees, on either side of the valley. Because I suspected it, I made sure I dove on it on the first pass on the valley. I cut the wire with the prop of my Pawnee. The second I completely spaced out. I had seen it on high recon and low recon. My old Stearman had the lugging power to punch on through. The third was a black cable holding telephone lines. It ran halfway down the field I was spraying and then went underground the second half. I started spraying crosswind on the downwind border (wind management) of the field on the half that had no wire. By the time I got to it, I had somewhat forgotten about it. It shocked me and my two main tires thumped it on the way out. Not very comfortable porpoising thirty feet in the air.

These guys did a good job getting out. I expect they cut the wire with the prop. Spray planes have cutters on the gear and in front of the windscreen and a cable to keep wires from catching the vertical stabilizer. I forgot about letting the corn get too high and having this cable save my life, going under a wire, in a Pawnee. The wire just bent the round part of the rudder where it flexes above the top of the vertical stabilizer.

Seems to me that a CAP pilot hit a wire upstream of the reservoir a few years back. Southern Idaho is a bad place for wires due to all the hydro power generation and irrigation pumps, but that I think that was a water flow gauging station cable. Actually like a 1-inch wire rope.

Couldn't find it a few minutes ago, but finally did:

http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20051128X01892&key=1&queryId=e6eba876-031d-4d11-a8f7-df4baaef2709&pgno=42&pgsize=50

http://m.localnews8.com/news/small-plan ... HPw.mailto

Here's a little more extensive news report since being pulled from the river