http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/02/12/2390883/pilot-rescued-after-plane-crash.html

Sounds like a good job with the dead stick landing. As usual the comments are interesting. No word yet on what type of aircraft.

BELLINGHAM, WASH. - A 28-year-old pilot is resting at home in Bellingham after crashing a small plane on Mount Baker.
The Whatcom County sheriff's office says it received reports Saturday night of both a snowmobile accident and a plane crash at an area known as Schreibers Meadow. When search-and-rescue personnel arrived, they learned that the injured snowmobilers had been taken off the mountain by friends. They then proceeded toward the signal of the plane's emergency beacon on the Deming Glacier at the 7,800-foot level.
When they reached the plane, there was no one there. Officials eventually learned that some of the snowmobilers had taken the pilot off the mountain.

The state Transportation Department and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating.

Update on the crash. Be interesting to see how they handle removing the aircraft from a wilderness area.

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/02/12/2391206/snowmobilers-rescue-pilot-after.html
Snowmobilers rescue 2 after plane crash on Mount Baker glacier
BELLINGHAM — A 28-year-old Bellingham man and his passenger were safe Sunday after crash-landing a small plane Saturday night nearly 8,000 feet high on the south side of Mount Baker. Both the pilot and passenger, whose names were not released, were rescued from the snow-covered volcano by snowmobilers who saw the wreck, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office.
Neither pilot or passenger were injured.

The plane was a described as a Piper PA-18, a two-seat single-engine aircraft manufactured in 1953. It was registered to the 208 Corp. of Seattle, according to the FAA. A photograph with the FAA’s online registry showed it was painted bright yellow.
Details of the crash were sketchy, said Mike Fergus, spokesman for the FAA’s Northwest Mountain Region. He said the plane made what was described as an emergency landing. “There was substantial damage to the aircraft,” Fergus said. The state Transportation Department and possibly the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident. Officials from those agencies did not return phone calls Sunday afternoon. Renee Bodine, public affairs officer for the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, said she could not recall if a plane has ever crashed on Mount Baker.

The incident began as an aircraft was reported missing Saturday night by family members who said the pilot had not returned from his trip to take photos of Mount Baker. About the same time, the Transportation Department's Aviation Division was alerted to an emergency beacon from a downed aircraft. A crew from the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station was scrambled to search for the lost plane.
Meanwhile, law-enforcement officials in Whatcom County received reports about 7:20 p.m. Saturday of both a snowmobile accident and a plane crash or forced landing at Schreibers Meadow, a popular recreation area south of the 10,781-foot Mount Baker.
Although much of the land in the Mount Baker National Recreation Area is designated wilderness and off-limits to vehicles, there is a small portion that's open to snowmobilers. It's accessible only by unpaved roads from Whatcom County on the west and by U.S. Forest Service roads and hiking trails on the southeast side via Skagit County. When search-and-rescue personnel arrived at Schreibers Meadow, they learned that injured snowmobilers had been taken off the mountain by friends. Information on the extent of their injuries was unknown.

Search and rescue personnel proceeded toward the signal from the plane's emergency beacon on the Deming Glacier at the 7,800-foot level.
When they reached the plane, it was empty. Officials learned later that snowmobilers had transported the pilot off the mountain.
It was unknown how the plane was to be removed from the glacier. Bodine said that typically, debris must be packed out of wilderness areas unless a special permit can be obtained for motorized vehicles.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.

If this thing turns out to have Bushwheels or skis on it.....................

They can always lift it with a Huey or Kmax.

There's a logging outfit in Darrington thats hauled alot of dead snowmobiles off the mountain. They better act quick, that moutain holds the world record for amont of show in one season.1140 inches(95ft) recorded at the ski resort in the 98-99 season.If your going riding up there bring your turbo sled. Lots of steep and deep.

lowflyin'G3 wrote:If this thing turns out to have Bushwheels or skis on it.....................

You read my mind!

I was hoping to get a little more info about the accident. The snowmobilers up there are a pretty tight knit group. They post a lot on a certain forum, but they're being very tight lipped, as somebody "strayed into the wilderness area" to rescue the pilot and passenger.There is already some very disturbing remarks about the unthoughtful pilot for creating a "debris field" on the glacier, as well as the POS snowmobilers who rode in to rescue the pilot and passenger.Kind of crazy how some people think,i hope they never need rescued.

You can bet if a greenie got hurt in the wilderness they would love to see any motorized rescue vehicle ASAP....

Another thing curious about this incident is the NTSB prelim shows it as a Cub.

http://www.faa.gov/data_research/accide ... _1165C.txt

The FAA database shows it as a M20K Mooney. http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry ... rtxt=1165C.

Maybe the feds who worked the crash misread the data tag or the Cub had the Mooneys Number displayed on it...... Stranger things have happened.... I can just see the Mooney owner getting a 98,000 $$$ bill from the Dept of the Interior for removing his plane from the wilderness..

B.

Ya, i noticed the N number error the other day and figured maybe a typo. Didn't give it much thought.Seems kind of strange now,hope he wasn't sneaking back from Canada with a load of B.C."cargo"

"Forced landing" at 8000'? If it was an engine failure you can glide quite a ways from that altitude- yet a forced landing on the mountain. Hmmmm............

About 13to14 n.m. to 3w5 at concrete, elevation 267. I dont know the glide ratio for a pa-18. You know what they say, any landing you walk away from.... The scuttlebut from the snowmobilers is that they don't think it was in the wilderness? The pilot was walking out when picked up? Good thing he did this on a weekend, not to many riders up there on a weekday.

Honestly I expect the aircraft to show up with skis or bushwheels!

Regarding the choice of landing site, that country is pretty rugged. I think a smooth glacial field would be a better option then crossing some nasty terrain to reach Concrete or some other landing area.

Stol wrote:......The FAA database shows it as a M20K Mooney. http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry ... rtxt=1165C.

Typo, searching by owner's name ("208 Corp" of Seattle) turns it up as N1155C. I googled up a photo-- it's a good looking Supercub, yellow with a green (not black) lightening bolt. That green bolt is distinctive, I've seen it around somewhere fairly recently.

Updated news video with interview of pilot. Sounds like helping stranded snowmobiles and caught in a downdraft.

http://www.king5.com/video?id=139561438&sec=549122

And yes there were bush wheel on that cub