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All I have to say is... wow, and very well done.

Pilot Safely Lands Plane w/ 3 Passengers While Having Heart Attack

Associated Press

BRIGHAM CITY, Utah . A pilot suffering a heart attack made an emergency
landing on a highway, saving his three passengers shortly before he died.

Jack Francis, 61, president of Francis Trucking in Brigham City, took
off from Jackpot, Nev., and was headed home with his wife and another
couple when he suffered a heart attack Sunday morning, Utah Highway
Patrol spokesman Derek Jensen said.

He landed the single-engine Cessna 185 on Utah 30 near Park Valley and
was taken to Bear River Hospital in Tremonton, where he died, Jensen
said.

The plane went off the highway and hit a fence before coming to a stop,
but the passengers were not injured.

"He basically saved these other three peoples' lives by landing the
plane on the highway,'' Jensen said.

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Unbelievable story. I always like to fly with one other pilot whenever
possible so this sort of thing doesn't happen. But that can't happen every
time. I think its amazing that he had the wherewithall to determine that he
was having a heart attack and needed to land immediately.

Mike

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