Pair survive crash at Yellowstone

POWELL, Wyo.  — Authorities say two Alaska men escaped serious injury when they crashed their single-engine airplane in Yellowstone National Park.

Park County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lance Mathess tells The Powell Tribune 61-year-old pilot James Betzhold and his passenger, 25-year-old Douglas Betzhold, both of Beluga, Alaska, crashed shortly after taking off from Cody’s Yellowstone Regional Airport at about 4 p.m. Friday.

The fixed-wing Piper 180 aircraft crashed southeast of Sylvan Pass.