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Local public safety officials currently are rushing to save an unidentified plane from sinking into Lake Tahoe 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
Currently, Washoe County Sheriff's Office Deputy Ben Coffindafffer is on a jet ski, transporting buoys to the plane in an attempt to keep it afloat. WCSO and NLTFPD officials also have confirmed there is fuel leaking from the plane into Lake Tahoe.
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.
Stay tuned to the Bonanza for more...
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
Currently, Washoe County Sheriff's Office Deputy Ben Coffindafffer is on a jet ski, transporting buoys to the plane in an attempt to keep it afloat. WCSO and NLTFPD officials also have confirmed there is fuel leaking from the plane into Lake Tahoe.
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.
Stay tuned to the Bonanza for more...
