Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) swam to safety after his small plane made an emergency landing in Wisconsin’s Lake Wausau on Sept. 12.
“The plane I was traveling in lost power as we approached the Wausau Downtown Airport,” Tiffany shared in a social media post early Sunday morning. “The pilot made an emergency water landing in Lake Wausau.”
Tiffany, the Republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin, and pilot Leonard Boltz were the only people on board the Beechcraft K35, according to the Marathon County Sheriff’s Office.
The single-engine aircraft was made in 1959 and can hold up to five people, including the pilot….