A helicopter pilot faces up to $10,000 in fines and a year in jail for making an illegal landing in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park
Associated Press — — A helicopter pilot faces up to $10,000 in fines and a year in jail for making an illegal lakeside landing in Grand Teton National Park. But whether he was justified by a weather emergency or set down just to have a picnic is in dispute.
Smith landed at an area inaccessible except by boat or by hiking at least 10 miles round trip. Park rangers who heard about the landing reached the site at the foot of the craggy Teton Range by boat. “We were trying to cross over the Tetons and we couldn't, so we landed. We were not having a picnic. We were landing," he told The Associated Press.
In February, Smith flew below safe altitude near western Colorado's Black Canyon of the Gunnison and paid a $530 fine, according to the National Park Service statement.
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