http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ewinplane0901.artsep01,0,7006783.story Pilot Crash-Lands Vintage Plane In Tree By JODIE MOZDZER Courant Staff Writer September 1, 2008 Two people were stuck in a vintage airplane for several hours Sunday mornin= g, after the plane crashed into trees about 300 yards from the Skylark Airp= ark runway. The occupants, August Gorreck and Susan Williams, were not injured. They we= re flying a 1935 de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane, which has two layers of w= ings and an open cockpit, to Block Island, R.I., from Skylark Airpark in Ea= st Windsor, according to friends. The plane crashed about 9:35 a.m. into a tree in a marshy area. The two occ= upants were rescued about 12:35 p.m. The U.S. Coast Guard was called in to = assist in the rescue with its helicopter, but emergency responders from a s= pecial operations team of the Enfield Fire Department, and firefighters fro= m the East Windsor and Warehouse Point departments, were able to rescue the= pair without the helicopter's help. Fire Chief James Barton, of Warehouse = Point, said there was a concern that draft winds from the helicopter could = have pushed the plane down out of the tree, where it was perched about 50 f= eet from the ground. Charles Cohen, who said he was one of the three owners of the Tiger Moth pl= ane, was behind the plane on the runway at the privately owned airport. "They lost power and [Gorreck] did exactly what he was supposed to do," Coh= en said. "Keep it controlled as long as you can and you'll probably survive= . You can't panic." The terrain complicated the rescue. A Bradley International Airport crash r= escue truck became stuck in the mud trying to reach the airplane. The special operations team reached the site on smaller vehicles and secure= d the airplane with ropes so it wouldn't fall, Barton said. They were able = to use ropes and pulleys to reach to occupants and lift them out of the pla= ne in a rescue basket. Contact Jodie Mozdzer at jmozdzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx Copyright =A9 2008, The Hartford Courant =0A=0A=0A <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you wish to unsubscribe from the AIRLINE List, please send an E-mail to: "listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". Within the body of the text, only write the following:"SIGNOFF AIRLINE".