BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The Harney County sheriff’s office says a biplane flown by a California aerobatic pilot crashed in the remote high desert southwest of Burns, Ore., but she escaped serious injury.
The sheriff’s office says 58-year-old Jacquie Warda was able to communicate with the pilot of another aircraft after the Sunday morning crash and that pilot called for aid. Warda is from Danville, Calif.
Sheriff’s dispatcher Jennifer Foster tells The Oregonian that an air ambulance crew directed to the crash site found Warda on her feet beside the demolished Pitts Special aircraft. The dispatcher says the crew described it as “not recognizable as an airplane.”
Foster says Warda apparently was on a cross-country flight but it wasn’t immediately known where she was headed when her plane experienced engine failure.
