Crash Survivor Found In Woods -- Woman's Husband, Four Others Are Killed

RYDERWOOD, Cowlitz County - The lone survivor of a plane crash that killed five Canadians, including the president of a major logging-equipment company, was found walking in the woods nearly 38 hours after the accident happened, officials said.

Kathy Madill, 42, the wife of the company president, was recovering today in a Portland hospital. Madill, of Nanaimo, B.C., was found early yesterday morning by bow hunters, said Brian Holmes of the Washington state Aeronautics Division.

The plane in which she was a passenger crashed into a forested ridge near this southwestern Washington town Friday night, Holmes said.

Killed were Madill's husband, Pat Madill, 42, president of S. Madill Co.; Madill's stepdaughter, Leanne Johnson, 19; her boyfriend, Ralph Pomphrey, 20; company pilot Bill Anderson; and his wife, Marlene Anderson, all of the Nanaimo area, officials said.

S. Madill Co., based in Nanaimo, is the world's leading manufacturer of heavy-duty logging equipment, said company spokesman Steve Shaw.

Madill was listed in fair condition at Emanuel Hospital in Portland with a broken collarbone, hypothermia and shock.

``She was lethargic after being out in the weather for that length of time,'' a nursing supervisor said late yesterday. Madill was in pretty good condition considering her ordeal, the supervisor said.

The company plane, a 10-seat Aero Commander 690, was flying on a business trip from Nanaimo to the company's manufacturing plant in Kalama in southwestern Washington, Shaw said. It crashed about 60 miles north of Portland about 7 p.m. Friday, Holmes said.

``It's our plant in the States,'' Shaw said. ``We flew down two or three times a month, at least.''

Shaw said he began notifying airports and search-and-rescue teams Saturday afternoon when officials at the Kalama plant called to ask about the whereabouts of the company officials.

Madill, established in 1911, employs 100 people in Nanaimo and 20 in Kalama, he said.

Cowlitz County officials located the wreckage and had removed the victims' bodies and their belongings by late yesterday, said Deputy Sheriff Charles Rosenzweig. Cleanup of the wreckage would continue today, he said.

The cause of the crash was being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.