A rescue mission by Snohomish County Search and Rescue returns two brothers in their 70s to safety on Monday. At about 9:30 a.m. Monday, both men were found in the Lake Cavanaugh area. According to the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office, their plane crashed into some trees Sunday night and the two men were able to climb down to safety.
Snohomish County search-and-rescue crews say the Cessna went into the trees with one wing low and one wing high but stopped about five feet away from the ground.
“It never actually hit the ground. So it stopped in the trees, so they were able to hop out and drop down to the ground,” said Ernie Zeller, a rescue tech with Snohomish County SAR. Skagit County and WSDOT search crews started the search on Sunday when the Allyn brothers didn’t make their expected return from the Concrete airport to Snohomish.
They picked up a faint beacon, which gave Snohomish crews a starting point for the search Monday morning.