A plane crashed early Friday evening in Fall City, near the S.R. 202/203 roundabout, in a field behind the Fall City Bistro. The pilot, a 40-year-old man, was transported to a hospital with significant, but not life-threatening injuries.

“He was conscious, alert, talking to us,” said Lt. Jake Koehnen, the Fall City Fire Department spokesperson and incident commander for the response. “He had been pulled out by bystanders,” Koehnen added.

Fall City Fire responded to the crash site at about 6:30 p.m. Friday, Koehnen said, along with several King County Sheriff’s deputies, who were there to control traffic in the area.  A representative from the National Traffic Safety Board was on site as well, investigating the crash.

“With any place crash, the NTSB investigates,” Koehnen explained, so the large response from King County was not unusual. “They need to make sure the scene is controlled.”

Koehnen added that luckily, one of the deputies was a pilot, who knew how to shut off the plane’s power system.

“There was some haste to get him out of there, because there was quite a bit of fuel on the ground,” Koehnen said.

No fire started, and no cause of the crash has been determined; Koehnen said the plane had “cartwheeled a little bit” during the crash.  Officials did not know where the pilot was from, but confirmed he was the only person in the plane.