Pilot Survives Crash Into Clark Fork

Montana and Idaho authorities responded this afternoon to an airplane that apparently crash landed in the Clark Fork River just east of the Cabinet Gorge Dam. The pilot survived the crash and has been transported to Bonner General Hospital in Sandpoint for hypothermia treatment, a dispatcher said. The Sanders County, Mont., Sheriff’s Office received a call at about 2:20 p.m. that a small airplane was floating upside down towards the dam. Emergency crews from Bonner County also responded from Sandpoint and the pilot was located and transported to the hospital to be treated for hypothermia, Sanders County dispatcher Bill Brown said/ Spokesman-Review . More here.