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King County authorities say 1 man died and another was injured when a small plane crashed into a house near Woodinville. (Image courtesy King County Sheriff's Office)

Pilot who died in Woodinville plane crash named

SEATTLE (AP) - The King County medical examiner has identified Jay Uusitalo of Redmond, Wash., as the pilot who died when a small plane crashed into a house near Woodinville on Saturday.

The 45-year-old was killed and his teen-aged nephew from Eastern Washington was injured when the fixed-wing, single engine plane crashed. Both men were traveling in the plane and no one on the ground was hurt.


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  • William Lawn wrote...
    Maybe don't tweet KCSD
    Find out what the frak is going on. That would be time better spent.
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  • Cash wrote...
    Shut up William
    Enough said... The media outlets want them to communicate with them this way because it is fast and they can get more done with less questions... Man I thought you were smarter than that...
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  • William Lawn wrote...
    Who give a flying frak what the "media outlets" want?
    The job isn't to make news, it is to find out what is going on.
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  • Cash wrote...
    Duh
    You really are not very smart... The Sheriff's Office will only secure the scene and the NTSB will conduct the investigation stupid. It is pretty much clear what happened; the plane crashed and a guy is dead and another is in critical condition. It is Sergeant West's job to answer all the incoming calls from dozens of media outlets and instead of wasting time speaking to each one it is much easier and time saving to send the photo and a press release once. Here she is saving time and being efficent and you are complaining about it. It is not her job to investigate but communicate with the media stupid.
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  • William Lawn wrote...
    OK, listen up frackface
    The KCSD doesn't have "time" to respond to residential burglaries.

    Your classic car gets stolen?

    They are understaffed. Drink your coffee but doubt if they'll do anything to follow up.

    Other priorities you know.

    Get off twitter, stop looking at porn and do you fraking job.

    Frakface.

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  • Cash wrote...
    Wow
    How dare someone question the great William Lawn AKA poopy pants... You go back to yelling at everyone else and leave the police work to the adults.
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  • Nickatnyt wrote...
    Aircraft info can be found at Flightaware.com
    http://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N17PR
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  • Drool wrote...
    Registry of A/C in Question
    http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N17PR
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  • shark75 wrote...
    Time to ban small aircraft?
    Had to be the one to throw that out there...
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  • Torqueboy wrote...
    Time to ban cars and boats?
    Might as well if we're also going to make the sky illegal for citizens.
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  • Country_Dog wrote...
    Close Call
    Apparently, the most under-reported aspect of this story is that Luke Burbank was thinking of getting a coffee in Woodinville a few years back. He narrowly escaped death.
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  • Cash wrote...
    HAHA
    Now that is funny!!! He is a professional victim for sure!
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