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"A small plane crashed into Lake Winnipesaukee in Alton around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.Click to watch News 9's coverage.The plane crashed into the water near Rattlesnake Island. The seaplane was fully submerged in the lake after the crash.The pilot, 59-year-old Vadim Gayshan of Sudbury, Mass., was taken to a local hospital to be checked out. Marine Patrol said its officers found the man clinging to the plane. He was conscious and able to tell them what happened.Gayshan had taken off from Fitchburg, Mass., and wanted to know how much ice remained on the lake.After evaluating the ice on the lake, Gayshan was apparently practicing touch-and-go landings when he misjudged elevation, a pontoon failed and the plane flipped.\u201COfficers responding found a small aircraft that was inverted and the pilot, which was the single occupant of the plane, was out of the craft,\u201D said Sgt. Dave Ouellette of the New Hampshire Marine Patrol.Sgt. Joshua Dirth was there and knew they had to move quickly, he said.\u201CWe ended up throwing him a Type 4 life jacket and brought him to the side of our boat before we were able to bring him in,\u201D Dirth said. \u201COnce the water went around his body, it was like paralysis. He was not able to movie. It took two of us to lift him into the boat.\u201DGayshan, a 13-year pilot, has the six-seat Cessna registered through his engineering and manufacturing company out of Shirley, Mass. He has been flying seaplanes for about two years.Marine patrol brought him ashore for treatment of hypothermia. Gayshan was taken to Lakes Region General Hospital.Marine patrol still had its hands full on the water.\u201CWe were able to bring (the plane) to the surface, but that lasted only about a minute, and it did go back down. It\u2019s a rather large seaplane,\u201D Dirth said.The plane is now submerged in 105 feet of water. The state Department of Environmental Services placed precautionary booms to collect any fluids that spilled from the plane.The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the plane is a Cessna 206 aircraft.Recovery efforts were postponed after rough weather moved in. Conditions are expected to improve sometime Wednesday.12967056"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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