On Tue, 18 May 2004 13:02:15 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Typical eye-witness faux-pas.... (BS)

But the engine, mount & cowling did depart the aircraft in flight.
The engine was found 1000+ feet from the rest of the airplane.

Bela P. Havasreti

Aside from the fact that this lad should perhaps find a safer pastime...

Did he really land his Cessna 170, after a mid-air collision, with his
engine no longer attached to the airframe -- by turning on the *auto-pilot*?