Note- I'm still a little shaky, so please excuse my typing.
Well, I don't know if people will sympathize with me, or call me an attention whore.
But, my grandpa is a 70 year old man. And he never ceases to amaze me.
At 7pm Monday, July 31, 2007, he was flying his Experimental Plane, and the engine cut out. His plane the dissapeared into the woods.
The search set out at 9:45 pm. By 11 pm, it had been called off.
At 4 Am, Tuesday, August 1, 2007, my father recieved a call from my grandmother. He was alive. They never found him, or the plane. My 70 year old grandfather walked out of the wreck, two miles to a house, where the paramedics were called. He only has a few broken ribs, a black eye, some bruises, and a slightly broken hand.
Wow...
I am really amazed, that a 70 year old man had the strength and determination to survive that he could walk out of a plane wreck. That also must've taken great pilotting to get a plane to land so easily when it didn't have an engine.
Quote:
A man from Howell County, Missouri crashed his experimental airplane Monday night, but was able to walk about two miles to get help.
Dispatchers say they got a call about 9:45 pm, after a local man piloting an experimental airplane took off from the Willow Springs Airport.
They say he was circling his property just north of the airport when his wife heard the engine cut out. The plane then disappeared.
Searchers were looking both on the ground and in the air for the wreckage, which they still have not found.
Dispatchers say the pilot walked until he found a home where he could get help. He was taken to an area hospital to be checked out.
Taken from
http://ozarksfirst.com/content/fulltext/?cid=9977
I don't care if you flame me, or sympathize with me. I just needed to tell somebody to make myself feel better. I don't know how, but this will help me feel better.
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