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Small Plane Crash at Chico Airport

What: Beechcraft 35 en route from Portland-Hillsboro Airport to Chico Minicipal Airport
Where: 200 feet N of the runway of Chico Airport
When: NOV 10, 2009 5:30 pm
Who: 2 on board
Why: On approach to the Chico airport after refueling in Hillboro, Ore., the plane lost power at the north end of the airport. The right wing dipped and struck the ground, then the plane flipped nose first.

The wife was piloting the plane.

The plane was a total loss; but the couple who is from Seattle, made plans to fly on to AZ.

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