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Ashley Hayes ReportingA small plane crashed this morning at the Bountiful Airport. The pilot made an emergency landing with just minutes left before the engine shut down.
The pilot has a few cuts and bruises, and a witness says she's shaken but doing all right.
The pilot slammed the two-seater plane into a fence at the end of a runway inside Bountiful Air Park.
She was heading south for Kanab from Bountiful when an oil line broke, splattering across the windshield.
A witness at the airfield said the pilot was moments away from being involved in a real disaster.
Steve Newman/ Witness: "When she first came in she was low and she was fast. She made a turn. She maybe had another two minutes left of oil before the engine would have seized. She could have gone down on Redwood Road, in a subdivision, if she would have gone down in the city."
But fortunatley when the pilot started experiencing problems she turned back. Without being able to see, she had trouble getting the plane back on the ground.
Steve Newman: "She couldn't get the plan to stop before going off. She couldn't go back around because of visibility out the window, so she had to stop the aircraft at this point, and that's when she crashed."
She crashed into the fence. Once again, we are told she is alright, just unnerved.
The plane had minimal damage. They rolled it back to the hangar. Even the fence wasn't too badly torn apart.
