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Tragedy was averted Monday when an pilots of an airplane helping in the fight of a local wildfire escaped without injury after an emergency landing near lee.
Early Monday morning detectives of the Elko County Sheriff’s office were returning from the fire in Lee when they were alerted that the Jiggs Highway near the Ten Mile ranch was blocked due an aircraft making an emergency landing.
When the detectives arrived in the area of the ranch, the aircraft already landed. The pilot, Terry Scott, and Heli Tach Fire Supervisor Eric Hutchins were outside the aircraft, uninjured.
The aircraft suffered minor damage to both wings due to striking signs along the edge of the roadway while landing.
Traffic was diverted around the aircraft and the road was cleared.
The aircraft was eventually pushed approximately ? mile to the entrance to the Landa Ranch and off of the Jiggs Highway.
The aircraft was one of the spotter planes involved in fighting the Chimney Fire near Lee.
The Ten Mile ranch is located approximately three miles south of the Lamoille Highway intersection in Spring Creek on the Jiggs Highway.
Last month two pilots fighting a blaze in White Pine County lost their lives in a crash.
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