The pilot and a passenger aboard a single-engine airplane that crash-landed Tuesday morning in the Rogue River near Galice were rescued, unharmed, by a rafting company that was training in swift-water rescue at the same location.

The crash was reported at 9:28 a.m. near the Ennis Riffle boat ramp, a popular put-in on the Rogue about a mile and a half up river from Galice.

The plane, listed as a single-engine, two-seat experimental craft, landed upright in the river. Witnesses said the pilot and passenger were rescued by a team from the OARS rafting company that was training in swift-water rescue at the boat landing.

Firefighters placed fuel containment booms around the aircraft while authorities figure out how to remove it. The plane was resting half-submerged in the river.

Aviation records list the plane as a Van's RV-8, a home-built aircraft sold in kit form by Van's Aircraft of Aurora in Marion County.

The pilot was identified as Bear Perrin, whose Facebook page says he is a retired physical therapist who is pursuing “his dream of being a full-time pilot and now spends his days as a flight instructor, charter and corporate pilot” flying out of the Grants Pass Airport.