Pvt Pilot gets shot helping the cops!

[mikea]

Clay Center — Hit in the head by a shot fired from the ground, pilot Mike Spicer managed, with the help of his passenger, to get his plane safely back to the Clay Center airport.
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Spicer, a Clay County commissioner who manages the municipal airport, was pressed into service Friday by authorities looking for a man who sped off when a deputy tried to stop him for illegal registration of his pickup truck.

Sheriff Chuck Dunn called Spicer, figuring he could get his Cessna 150 in the air near this north-central Kansas community sooner than the Kansas Highway Patrol plane.

http://www.ljworld.com/section/stateregional/story/203897

 

[poadeleted3]

That'll happen sometimes. Glad he's OK. The suspect sounds like a real sweet heart.

 

[wbarnhill]

Oh geez. Think there's something in there about interfering with a flight crew that the guy will get charged with? I say throw the book at him, and then throw another one at him, and continue until he gets the picture that he's a frickin moron.