[TowerTalk] ULTRALIGHT PILOT THUMPS TOWER

[Pete Smith]

At 02:08 PM 9/18/00 -0400, Dave Bowker wrote:
>
>From:  Aviation Newsletter 9/18/00
>
>ULTRALIGHT PILOT THUMPS TOWER, SCRAMS:
>
>There's one luck ultralight pilot out there somewhere.  The pilot hit a
>150-foot personal TV tower
>near West Point, Ind., after buzzing some of his friends.  About 45 feet of
>the tower was sheared off, and three steel cables holding it in place were
>cut.  Authorities haven't nailed the culprit yet but do have some clues,
>including a shoe, compass, sunglasses and a can of beer that were dropped in
>the impact.


What, no body parts?  There's one lucky idiot.

73, Pete Smith N4ZR

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