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Wednesday, September 11, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
SUSPECT: Homeowner
detained suspect until
authorities arrived
OSU funded Deadly plane crash at Oregon fly-in
to research
quake impact
on electrical
grid
By Andrew Selsky
Associated Press
Continued from page 1
suspect, later identified as
Huber, and Huber left the
residence.
DCSO reports that Huber
then went to the neighboring
house and began ringing the
doorbell. The homeowner
there also called 911, and told
Huber to leave. Huber then
walked over to the area of
the original house he broke
into where he was again con-
fronted by the armed home-
owner. The homeowner held
him at gunpoint until sheriff9s
office units arrived on scene.
Huber was detained at the
scene without incident. He
reportedly advised deputies
he believed his family, who
lives nearby, was in grave
danger and being held hos-
tage. Several deputies went to
Huber9s residence to conduct
a welfare check, and found
everyone safe and sleeping.
Huber was arrested for the
charges of first-degree bur-
glary, criminal mischief and
criminal trespass, and booked
into the Deschutes County
Adult Jail. There were no
injuries during this inci-
dent. The Deschutes County
Sheriff9s Office was assisted
at the scene by the Black
Butte Police Department.
WASHINGTON (AP) 4
Oregon State University will
receive more than $400,000
in federal funds to research
how large earthquakes, like
ones that could strike in the
Cascadia Subduction Zone,
would affect the western
electrical grid.
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and
Jeff Merkley, both Oregon
Democrats, announced that
the award from the National
Science Foundation will pro-
vide $433,792 to a project
titled, <Earthquake Resilience
of the Western Power Grid.=
Wyden said it9s vital to
understand the risks of a big
earthquake to the electrical
grid that keeps everything
running, so local communi-
ties can prepare to respond.
Merkley said the grant
will allow Oregon State
University to conduct critical
research so the West Coast
can prepare for the challenges
that will follow a major
earthquake.
YOUR LOCAL WINDOW COVERINGS EXPERT
SALEM (AP) 4 As doz-
ens of horrified pilots and
other aviation enthusiasts
looked on, a small plane took
off Friday from an airfield in
the scenic Oregon town of
Hood River then plummeted
to the ground after its engine
cut out, killing the pilot and
his passenger.
The crash occurred as an
annual <fly-in,= where hun-
dreds gather to view planes,
many of them antiques, was
about to start.
One of the people killed
was Ben Davidson, chief
pilot for a museum of
antique planes and cars that
hosts the event, Hood River
County sheriff9s Deputy Joel
Ives said. Also killed was
Matthew Titus of Turlock,
California, who was piloting
the Super Cub airplane, Ives
said.
Ives said the two men
were apparently related.
The Piper PA-18 Super
Cub is a two-seat, single-
engine monoplane, intro-
duced in 1949 by Piper
Aircraft.
Witnesses said the plane
probably didn9t get more
than 100 feet (30 meters) off
the ground when the engine
cut out, almost caught, and
then cut out again, Ives said.
The weather was clear, with
scattered clouds and light
winds.
Davidson was chief pilot
for the Western Antique
Airplane & Automobile
Museum, which hosts the
Hood River Fly-In, being
h eld o n S atu rd ay an d
Sunday.
A woman who answered
the phone at the museum,
located alongside Hood
R i v e r 9s K e n J e r n s t e d t
Airfield, said she could not
comment, and hung up. Ives
said the museum owned the
crashed plane.
The Federal Aviation
Administration and National
Transportation Safety Board
were notified, and an FAA
representative, who may
have been off duty and hap-
pened to be nearby, already
visited the scene, Ives said.
Video footage showed
the yellow airplane had bro-
ken into pieces upon impact.
The rear fuselage was intact,
bearing the logo of the U.S.
Air Force from 1947.
<The main cockpit was
extremely mangled,= said
Ives, who got to the scene
after fire department and
emergency medical ser-
vices arrived. No one on the
ground was hit, he said.
Hundreds of people flock
to the airfield, located less
than three miles from the
Columbia River, for the
Hood River Fly-In.
<There are lots of fly-ins.
Pilots fly in with their per-
sonal planes and line them up
for viewing by the public,=
Ives said.
The event features bi-
plane rides, a Lions Club
Pancake Breakfast, pilot
seminars, aircraft restora-
tion workshops and book
signings.
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