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Wednesday April 4th
4/9/01:
There was a big scare today on Route 460 in Dinwiddie.
The
pilot of a small Ultralight airplane was forced to make a
crash
landing. It happened around 11am Monday, when the
engine
locked up. There was some minor damage to the
plane:
the wing was sheared off when it landed by some
trees
and there is some propeller damage but pilot walked
away
uninjured.
Pilot
John Belvin was out for a joy ride when the unthinkable
happened.
"Bang...Bang...Boop! And it locked up! Something
evidently
broke in the engine," the pilot said. He didnt have
much
altitude and while he didnt see any traffic on the
highway.
There were power lines, yet still, he put the nose
down
and prepared to land along the highway. "I was familiar
with
the area and I knew this spot over here and I could see
down
both ways, you know. And I said, well thats as good a
place
as any and I got room to get it off to the side," said
Belvin.
Ford
Volunteer Fire Chief Alvin Langley was one of the
first
on the scene. "When I topped the hill and actually saw
the
plane on the side of the road, I took a double take and I
said
uh oh!," Langley said. The pilot was uninjured and only
minimal
damage to the plane. One lane of west-bound Rt.
460
was blocked for about an hour early this afternoon. After
the
pilot landed, authorities moved the plane off the road. The
pilot
is expected to take it back to his property and he says
that
he is going to fix it back up.
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