Police airplane hits rocks during takeoff from remote airstrip
HART MOUNTAIN NATIONAL ANTELOPE REFUGE, Ore. -- A state police plane hit rocks today while attempting to take off from a remote gravel road used as an airstrip about 40 miles northeast of Lakeview, Ore. Neither of the two people aboard were injured. Oregon State Police Senior Trooper Duane Price and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife District Wildlife Biologist Craig Foster were working in the Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge area in Lake County taking a Bighorn Sheep census. As the 1981 Cessna A185F Skywagon II four-seat aircraft piloted by Price was accelerating on a rough gravel road surface for takeoff, it veered off the road and struck several rocks. Damage to the aircraft's under carriage and wing will require it to be removed from the area on a flatbed truck.
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