"Student" pilot survives in Montana

[jason]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-missing-plane,0,5773363.story

A student pilot whose plane crashed into a mountainside survived a freezing night huddled in the tail of the wrecked aircraft and wrapped in emergency blankets, then hiked a mile through waist-deep snow wearing only shorts to meet rescuers Wednesday.

Turns out he was PP-ASEL-IA with 150 hours. However, Because he was on a training flight he is a "student pilot". <sigh>

At least the guy later in the article sets them straight.

Also, kudos to the pilot. Regardless of the reason for the accident...he kept his wits about him and survived a night in the snowy mountains.

 

[Don Jones]

Good for him, but what is it with the "wearing shorts". I mean jeez it is wintertime up there still.

 

[n20junkie]

You always fly for the crash, not just the flight. At a minimum when I go out in the winter months, I take some super warm long underwear, a small yet powerful camping stove, matches, high calorie food, water bottles, and other small items. Even a unplanned landing at a remote airport can get really miserable if you can't contact someone to get ya.

 

[Richard]

Sometimes I would look down on the landscape and think if I crash it could be several days at best before I could walk out. Even though it might be the valley just before the ridge with a town on the other side. And that's in 'civilized' areas....

We forget how easy it is to fly across desolate land.

 

[Richard]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-missing-plane,0,5773363.story



Turns out he was PP-ASEL-IA with 150 hours. However, Because he was on a training flight he is a "student pilot". <sigh>

At least the guy later in the article sets them straight.

Also, kudos to the pilot. Regardless of the reason for the accident...he kept his wits about him and survived a night in the snowy mountains.

They could have called him an "applicant" to really confuse the reader.