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Plane crashes down and erupts in flames

Washington, Usa - It almost hit a house

A Pierce County man fell down with his new experimental float plane late Thursday: the aircraft crashed close to a house on Snag Island in Lake Tapps and burned, but fortunately the pilot was saved by a man just pulling into his driveway. At about 5 pm Tony Pritchard, had just returned home when his wife screamed that a plane was hurling toward the ground just a few hundred feet from their home. The...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 52527
Rome, Italy, 09/08/2003 17:44
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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