Higbwire drama? over canyon
NZPA-Reuter Bullhead City? Arizona For five hours Ralph Neal was as “cool as a cucumber.’’ But he collapsed when rescuers finally got him out of his small plane, which was tangled in 230,000-volt electric transmission lines 28m over a small canyon, said yesterday. Mr Neal, aged 50, a stud-' ent pilot from California, suffered only a scratch on the arm in the incident on Saturday which ended when authorities built a makeshift); road to within “cherrypicker” distance of the suspended aircraft. ”! Bullhead City's Fire Chief: (Mr Larry Adams) said Mr: Neal was on a solo, flight i from Bullhead City to Flagstaff and back when the : Cessna 190 single-engine) plane got entangled in the; transmission lines. J “The plane was just hang-| ing up there by one wheeLj We looked in the manuals,; ■and there weren’t any in-1 structions on how to handle] that. 31 A bulldozer on a ridge was] used to build a road to within 22 horizontal metres of the aircraft and moved the) “cherry picker* so Mr Neal:. could crawl in to it after knocking out a window in the plane. .
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