The 67-year-old pilot, whose name was not reported, had just taken off from Pierce County-Thun Field at 3:20 p.m. PDT Friday when his engine stopped, The Tacoma News-Tribune reported Saturday. He was alone in the 1982 Cessna.
"The plane took off, he got about 150 feet in the air and his engine quit running," Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff's Office, said.
"He tried to turn around and come back and land, but he didn't quite make it."
The plane hit a fence and landed upside down in the field next to the runway where Northwest Cascade had stored the portable toilets.
"The Honey Buckets kind of cushioned things," a Northwest Cascade worker who did not want to be named told the News-Tribune.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
Cessna is t bad plane
Cessna is t bad plane
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