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Article: Glider pilot trapped after crash-landing.
- Article from:
- Milton Keynes Citizen (Milton Keynes, England)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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A GLIDER pilot was trapped in his aircraft for an hour-and-a-half after crashing into a hedge in a farmer's field.
Luckily the pilot Richard Brickwood was not injured in the crash, but was only rescued after carpenter Richard Gennis heard about the accident when he visited Hyde Farm, in Olney.
Mr Gennis said: "He landed on a field downhill with the wind behind him, when he thought there was a cross wind. he tried to land, ran out ...