Not out of the plane, out of your brain!

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/v-printe ... 97692.html

An Anchorage pilot was injured when his plane crashed in Soldotna on Monday. John Hanson suffered head and foot injuries Monday afternoon when the plane went down soon after taking off from a private airstrip near Soldotna Municipal Airport.

Alaska State Trooper Kyle Carson said it appears Hanson, 73, was flying low and struck trees before the crash. The Champion 7ECA went down just after 4 p.m.

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"(Hanson was) too far to the left when he took off and he was never able to recover," Rupp said. "I was working on the orange plane and then jumped for my life when this one came around."

Rupp also noted that the gust lock on the plane's rudder was still attached and said that should have been removed before takeoff.