MAN KILLED IN FLOATPLANE CRASH CRAFT HITS ISLAND NEAR ANACORTES.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: August 27, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

A floatplane with two Mount Vernon men aboard skipped off fog-shrouded Burrows Bay southwest of here yesterday before slamming into a sandy beach on Allan Island.

Donald Norman, 67, died at the scene from head injuries shortly after the Cessna 172 went down at 10:45 a.m. The Skagit County Coroner's Office said he may have died on impact.

The other man, 55-year-old commercial pilot Frederick Knutzen, suffered a broken jaw and facial contusions and was airlifted to St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham, where he was reported in stable condition last night.

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