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03/27/2008: "Local Man Rescued From Montana Plane Crash"

Andrew Scheffer, 18, a Friday Harbor graduate, and now a freshman student pilot at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, used his cell phone to report in to his flight instructor that he had survived a crash in the Prior Mountains on a flight from Montana to Wyoming.

An emergency locater transmitter had sent out a signal on Tuesday that something may have happen to the plane as it was on a training flight, but it was the cell phone call that provided the good news

According to the Associated Press, the search for Scheffer was both on land and air. He was located from the air and ground crews were able to reach him and take him to hospital for treatment. Happily he had sustained the crash with no major injuries.

The full AP story was picked up by a large number of state and national news medias, including USA Today. One such AP story can be read in the Jackson Hole Star Tribune by clicking here . A press conference on the accident can be viewed here http://videos.billingsgazette.com/p/video?id=1791129