Cold, cold dip. Pilot and passenger, uninjured, wade to shore after plane breaks through ice. Image: Beltrami County sheriff
Snow concealed muck; Planes sashays onto lake ice
UPPER RED LAKE, Minn. – The pilot of a light airplane misjudged the slipperiness of a snow-covered landing zone at Upper Red Lake and skidded onto ice on the lake and broke through. The pilott and a lone passenger climbed out and waded to shore in icy waist-deep water. They made it to at a nearby resort for hot coffee and warm clothes. Preparations were made to recover the single-engine high-wing Cessna 172 Sky Hawk. The two were on a 100-mile flight from Grand Rapids to Upper Red Lake, which is north of Bemidji. The accident about 9:15 a.m.