Article: CHAOTIC DAY FOR RESCUE WORKERS : PLANE CRASH PILOT DITCHES IN CROATAN SOUND HE STEERED AWAY FROM HOUSES, DIVED TO PULL OUT HIS WIFE.(LOCAL)

Byline: CATHERINE KOZAK THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

ROANOKE ISLAND -- A pilot rescued his wife from a private plane submerged in the Croatan Sound Thursday following a crash minutes after takeoff from the Dare County Regional Airport.

The plane's pilot and registered owner, Rodney Minton of Manteo, told police that he and his wife, Kim, had just taken off for the Bahamas when the engine started sputtering and lost power, said state Highway Patrol Sgt. D.C. Garriss.

The 1965 Cessna 206, a six-passenger, single-engine plane, was steered into the sound to avoid houses on nearby Burnside Road, said Tim Gaylord, the airport's director.

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