Courtesy LA Gordon

The small plane smashed into a pickup truck after crash-landing at the Big Country Airstrip

BOISE - Two people are at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center after their plane crashed in to a truck on a remote airstrip in the Payette National Forest.

The Valley County Sheriff's Office says a small plane with a man and a woman on board crashed around 11 Monday morning on the Big Creek Airstrip.

That remote strip about 20 miles away from the small mountain community of Yellow Pine and more than 50 miles northeast of McCall.

Witnesses say the male passenger was piloting the plane when it over-shot the landing strip and hit an un-occupied truck at the end of that strip.

The Valley County Sheriff's Office says a Life Flight crew and the Cascade Ambulance Company responded to the scene.

The two crash victims were taken to Boise - one sustained serious injuries while the other only had minor scrapes and bruises.

The owner of the plane - Kjell W. Nielsen of San Diego, CA, was on board the plane at the time of the crash. He is listed in stable condition.

"We do believe the plane was trying to land and may have hit a vehicle at the end of the runway, an unoccupied vehicle," said Captain John Coombs with the Valley County Sheriff's Office.

EXCLUSIVE: Photos of the crash

The Big Creek Airstrip is the site of several other crashes in the past decade - including one in 1999 that killed four people.