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Plane crashes
Homemade aircraft goes down in Round Lake; pilot survives
By
MATT ERICKSON
Staff Writer
A small, homemade airplane en route from Brainerd to Winsted crashed Saturday afternoon in Round Lake north of Garrison, injuring the pilot.
The crash happened at 12:38 p.m., the Aitkin County Sheriff's Department reported. The pilot, Marlin Roy Zierman, 63, of Mayer, was airlifted to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale where Sunday he was reported in fair condition with non-life threatening injuries.
Aitkin County Sheriff Scott Turner on Sunday said the Federal Aviation Administration was investigating the cause of the crash.
The sheriff's department reported Zierman was flying a single-seat, amateur-built fixed wing airplane. Witnesses told sheriff's investigators that is sounded like the airplane was experiencing engine trouble and that it appeared the pilot was attempting an emergency landing on the ice of the 767-acre Round Lake, which is located in both Crow Wing and Aitkin counties two miles north of Garrison.
Garrison firefighter Greg Erickson said the plane did not break through the the ice on the lake. He said firefighters were paged for possible extrication, but were canceled after first responders helped Zierman from his airplane.
Assisting the Aitkin County Sheriff's Department were the South Aitkin First Responders, the Garrison Fire Department, The State Patrol, the DNR, the Crow Wing County Sheriff's Department and North Ambulance.
Winsted is about 45 miles west of the Twin Cities.
MATT ERICKSON may be reached at
matt.erickson@brainerddispatch.com or 855-5857.
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