Plane With 3 Aboard Crash-Lands Near Madras Airport

A small plane with three women aboard, including a student pilot and instructor, lost power as it approached Madras Airport Monday afternoon and made a forced landing in a cow pasture but was unable to stop before skidding through a fence, across a road and into an embankment, Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Adkins said.

The crash was reported just before 1 p.m. near the intersection of Northwest Glass Drive and Birch Lane, just south of the airport. Federal Aviation Administration regional spokesman Allen Kenitzer confirmed three people were aboard the Cessna 172 that came down in a field.

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