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Emergency crews removed an 83-year-old man from his crashed plane north of the airport Saturday night.
SCOTT MUSSELL / Courier Staff Photographer
SCOTT MUSSELL / Courier Staff Photographer
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Pilot remains hospitalized in airplane crash
By JEFF REINITZ, Courier Staff Writer
WATERLOO --- A Cedar Falls man whose small plane crashed Saturday night near the Waterloo Regional Airport has been moved to an Iowa City hospital, but his condition is not being released at the request of the family.
Donald Walker, 83, of 130 Summit Drive, was flying a Beech B-35 Bonanza toward the airport to land when the control tower lost contact with him at 8:24 p.m.
Paramedics with Covenant ambulance took him to Allen Hospital, and he was later moved to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Walker was conscious when rescue crews found him trapped in his wrecked airplane Saturday night, according to reports filed by Waterloo Fire Rescue and the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office.
When firefighters asked him if there were any others on the plane, he shook his head "no," the report states.
Rescue workers cut away a support post and part of the roof of the cockpit to get at Walker, records state. He was taken from the scene on a backboard.
It wasn't clear where Walker was coming from, but control tower staff told firefighters he was preparing to land and was cleared to come down on Runway No. 18 when his plane "went off the scope." Control tower staff told firefighters it appears Walker became disoriented while landing at night, according to reports filed by deputies and fire officials.
Walker's plane clipped the tops of several trees along the south side of Mount Vernon Road, about a half-mile east of Leversee Road, before crashing into a soybean field. The plane came to rest on its nose.
The Federal Aviation Administration was on the scene this morning to investigate.
Walker has a commercial pilot certificate and an instrument certificate, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Walker was involved in an aircraft accident while landing at the Waterloo Airport in December 2004. He wasn't injured in that crash.
Contact Jeff Reinitz at (319) 291-1578 or jeff.reinitz@wcfcourier.com.
Donald Walker, 83, of 130 Summit Drive, was flying a Beech B-35 Bonanza toward the airport to land when the control tower lost contact with him at 8:24 p.m.
Paramedics with Covenant ambulance took him to Allen Hospital, and he was later moved to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Walker was conscious when rescue crews found him trapped in his wrecked airplane Saturday night, according to reports filed by Waterloo Fire Rescue and the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office.
When firefighters asked him if there were any others on the plane, he shook his head "no," the report states.
Rescue workers cut away a support post and part of the roof of the cockpit to get at Walker, records state. He was taken from the scene on a backboard.
It wasn't clear where Walker was coming from, but control tower staff told firefighters he was preparing to land and was cleared to come down on Runway No. 18 when his plane "went off the scope." Control tower staff told firefighters it appears Walker became disoriented while landing at night, according to reports filed by deputies and fire officials.
Walker's plane clipped the tops of several trees along the south side of Mount Vernon Road, about a half-mile east of Leversee Road, before crashing into a soybean field. The plane came to rest on its nose.
The Federal Aviation Administration was on the scene this morning to investigate.
Walker has a commercial pilot certificate and an instrument certificate, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Walker was involved in an aircraft accident while landing at the Waterloo Airport in December 2004. He wasn't injured in that crash.
Contact Jeff Reinitz at (319) 291-1578 or jeff.reinitz@wcfcourier.com.
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