By Emily Gillespie and Patty Hastings The Columbian [Vancouver, Wash.]

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CAMAS — A couple from Port Ludlow escaped injury this afternoon, Friday, when the aircraft they were in crash-landed southwest of Grove Field north of Camas.

David Holt, 70, and his wife, Susan, 66, left Jefferson County International Airport between Port Ludlow and Port Townsend about 10 a.m. headed to Bend, Ore., aboard their refurbished 1954 Beechcraft Tango T34, a plane used in the Air Force as a military trainer, said Camas-Washougal Fire Capt. Brooks Cooper.

Somewhere over Camas, however, their engine failed, Cooper said, and they contacted emergency personnel just before noon.

The pilot safely landed the plane on its belly in a cornfield at Northeast 252nd Avenue and Northeast 5th Street.

“The pilot did an outstanding job,” Cooper said.

David Holt said they were flying from Jefferson County to Bend when the engine began to fail. He attempted to land in Grove Field, the local airport, but without adequate power, he put the plane down in the nearby cornfield instead.

He landed the plane on its belly and didn’t extend landing gear, fearing that the wheels might catch in the corn furrows.

The Federal Aviation Administration went to the crash site to investigate.

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