CAMARILLO : Pilot Forced to Make Emergency Landing
An experimental plane was forced to make an emergency landing Monday near Camarillo Airport, leaving its pilot trapped but uninjured, authorities said. Warren Fee of Thousand Oaks emerged unscathed after Ventura County firefighters freed him from the wreckage of his aircraft, the Sheriff’s Department reported.
Fee was flying the plane near the airport shortly before 2 p.m. when it lost power and he managed to land it in a field near the runway, authorities said. The plane then rolled over, trapping him in the cockpit.
“A couple of guys lifted the thing up and he crawled out,” said Lt. Paul Anderson of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department. He said Fee required no medical attention.
The Federal Aviation Administration dispatched investigators to examine the crash site. Monday’s crash was the third such accident involving an experimental plane in Ventura County in the past month.
On Saturday, a pilot was injured when his experimental aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Camarillo Airport. A Camarillo man was killed June 21 when his ultra-light plane crashed near Santa Paula Airport.
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