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Touchdown! Greaser!
I got a call from the AFC mission coordinator today on my way home from the hardware store. She wanted to know if there was any chance I could take a mission this afternoon. Since I'm no longer gainfully employed and had no commitments for the rest of the day I said sure, what do you need. Turns out that another AF pilot from the Chicago area had taken off from St Paul airport in his T210 to fly a patient to Waukegan and his engine threw a rod about 5 miles away from St Paul. He managed to land without further damage in a bean field he spotted. The pilot, his friend and copilot, plus the patient walked to a nearby house and knocked on the door. The mission that I took was to fly the three of them to KUGN. Actually, I expected to continue on to the pilot's home base KARR (Aurora IL) but he had already arranged to have his wife drive to UGN and pick him up. The patient was perfectly comfortable climbing into another "small plane" albeit one with two engines and was really happy that she would be able to make her appointment for treatment tomorrow.