BLACKFOOT — For over two hours Sunday, crews worked to remove a small passenger plane that had crashed into the Snake River near the Rose Road Bridge in Blackfoot.

A pilot, who was the only person inside the plane, called a nearby house around 6 p.m. asking for help, according to a news release from Bingham County. It was reported that the pilot had non-life-threatening injuries.

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The Federal Aviation Administration’s aircraft inquiry reports the plane was a Tecnam P2008.

FlightAware.com, a flight tracking website, showed the plane flying out of Idaho Falls Regional Airport at 5:40 p.m. with an estimated time of arrival at the McCarley Field Airport in Blackfoot at 5:54 p.m. The plane is shown stopping 1.

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