Article: Plane makes emergency landing just shy of cliffs near Davenport Sunday

FROM STAFF REPORTS

DAVENPORT -- A single-propeller plane ended up in the iceplant about 15 yards from the cliffs in front of Big Creek Lumber on Sunday evening, after a pilot who stopped for an evening visit to the beach apparently misjudged his takeoff.

The owner of the refurbished 1961 Skywagon 185 could not be identified Monday morning. But Bud McCrary, co-owner of Big Creek Lumber on Highway 1 north of ...

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