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Gump.......Are You in Russia?

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Gump.......Are You in Russia?

Pilot asks tractor driver for directions, crashes (April 16th, 2010 @ 12:22pm) Policy >> Talk About It MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian news report says a small plane has crashed when the pilot lost his bearings and decided to ask a tractor driver for directions. No one was hurt. RIA-Novosti news agency quoted a local police spokesman as saying the accident happened Friday in southern Russia's Stavropol region.

It said the pilot lost his way, saw a tractor below and decided to land to get advice from the driver.

Oleg Ugnivenko, a spokesman for the regional branch of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry, said the An-2 agricultural plane grazed the tractor while landing in the field and broke its landing gear. He said no one was hurt but gave no further details.
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Not Russia....but u can see it from here...3 miles
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It's almost as if he'd been watching too many Ohio Bush Planes episodes.
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Re: Gump.......Are You in Russia?

Hell yeah I'd land and ask some guy on a tractor for directions if I was lost. I just wouldn't hit the tractor with my airplane.

But no. Wasn't me. I was in Eureka Nevada at the Opera House watching Sourdough Slim. You Hosers missed a great show.

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