We talked on this subject before, now again:
Lowell Sterchi, who works at Collegedale Municipal Airport, told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that the student was being trained by an instructor in the small plane when the canopy came off.
The instructor, who also was not identified, managed to land the plane at the airport while emergency crews scoured the countryside around East Brainerd, Tenn., about eight miles away looking for the victim. East Brainerd is in the Chattanooga area.
And for an added twist:
WRBC reported that flight records showed that the plane was built by 82-year-old Clarence Andrews, a local resident, who died in December in an accident involving a different plane.
I hate to speak ill of the dead, but I’ll just say I wouldn’t be interested in a plane made by this man.
Still if only guns were regulated as much as planes…or something.
