Small plane crashes near Hayden
May 14, 2014 Updated Wed., May 14, 2014 at 10:32 p.m.

The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office has responded to a plane crash at the Coeur d’Alene Airport near Hayden reported shortly after 5 p.m. today.
The float plane was piloted by Terry Holman, 73, and his son Brian, 28, was a passenger. Holman was flying in from Felts Field in Spokane, said Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Stu Miller. Holman was banking to line up with the runway when his engine stopped, Miller said. One of the plane’s floats clipped the exhaust pipe of a large piece of heavy equipment. “After he clipped that he just pile drived into the ground,” Miller said.
Neither of the two men was injured. Holman said he had been flying since 1960 without a crash, Miller said.
The plane was manufactured by Aviat Aircraft in 2006 and is owned by Holman, according to the plane’s registration with the Federal Aviation Administration.
Local journalism is essential.
Give directly to The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages community forums series -- which helps to offset the costs of several reporter and editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below. Gifts processed in this system are not tax deductible, but are predominately used to help meet the local financial requirements needed to receive national matching-grant funds.
Subscribe now to get breaking news alerts in your email inbox
Get breaking news delivered to your inbox as it happens.