Looks like it isn't too bad. The Coupe and pilot both should fly again.
Richard
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BYRON, N.Y. (AP) A pilot escaped injury when
the small airplane he was warming up taxied out
of control across a cornfield and into an apple tree.
Genesee County sheriff's deputies say John
Sackett Jr. had just spun the propeller to start
the two-seater and was revving the engine from
outside the cockpit when the plane jumped a piece
of wood blocking one of its wheels.
The 80-year-old pilot chased the plane as it
motored off his property, through a berry patch
and into a post and trellis before hitting the tree Tuesday afternoon.
Sackett is the former supervisor of the town of
Byron. An experienced pilot, he bought the 1945
vintage, single-engine Ercoupe in 2008. With only
minor wing damage, the plane was towed back to
the small airstrip on Sackett's property.
At 07:38 PM 2/18/2009, Paul M. Anton wrote:
While checking on a possible local forced landing I spotted this
