The Incline Village General Improvement District has shut down the district's water intake pumps from Lake Tahoe as a precaution after a Thursday morning plane crash south of Burnt Cedar Beach in Incline dumped about 30-40 gallons of fuel and oil into the lake.

Mike Pennacchio, director of risk management for IVIGD, said district staff will momentarily begin testing the water for dangerous contaminants. If an above-normal level is found, the district may have to warn all IVGID residents in Incline and Crystal Bay to conserve water use.

Local public safety officials currently are trying to save the unidentified plane from sinking into the lake after it crash landed about 11 a.m. Thursday, a mile south if Burnt Cedar Beach in Incline Village.

North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District's Marine 16 boat had begun towing the crashed plane at about 11:30 a.m., from its crash spot, to Ski Beach in Incline. However, the plane began to take on water in tow, cutting off the towing effort about a half-mile south of Burnt Cedar. It was about this time officials noticed fuel leaking into the lake.

Washoe County Sheriff's Office Deputy Ben Coffindafffer and other officials are atttempting to keep the plane afloat by positioning buoys underneath.

Both of the plane's passengers were unhurt in the crash, and they are safe on one of the rescue boats near the plane, officials said.

WCSO officials say they were notified by the Nevada Civil Air Patrol at exactly 11 a.m. that a plane was going to crash in the lake. The plane crashed and was found upside down in the water, shortly after 11 a.m. when authorities arrived.

WCSO and Marine 9 jet skis took off from Burnt Cedar Beach, where authorities are staging, to aid the crash victims.

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