WHERE’S THE PILOT?

CHICAGO Airport – Okay, how do you top the story of the plane that landed without help from its pilot?… How about the story of the one that took off without one? A vintage propeller plane did just that, taking off without its pilot and flying unattended for more than an hour before running out of fuel and crash-landing into a farm field nearly 100 miles from the airport. . . . The 50-year-old, single-engine Aeronica Champ took off from Urbana Grimes Field near Dayton, Ohio, after pilot Paul Sirks got out to hand-crank the propeller. The FAA, in the […]

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