10/15/2002
By NWCN, KREM and AP Staff

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho -- Two Boise-area men were killed and a third was injured when their airplane crashed while landing at a private airstrip near Coeur d'Alene.

Kootenai County Sheriff's Captain Ben Wolfinger says pilot 32-year-old Grant Bailey of Boise and 39-year-old Barry Boetple of Meridian were killed in the crash this morning about five miles east of the city. Bailey was originally from Portland, friends told KGW

A passenger, 34-year-old Nate Calvin of Boise, was ejected and survived. He was being treated at Kootenai Medical Center for a broken leg, cuts and scrapes.

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Wolfinger says the men were employed by Chelton Flight Service of Boise and were in the area on a business trip.

The plane, an experimental "kit" plane made by Lancair International of Redmond, Oregon, left the runway and struck a tree. 

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