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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><h1><font size=1><b>Bob Hoovers
'Ole Yeller</font></b></h1><br><br>
<h1><font size=2><b>"N51RH" Bites the "Dust"--(Snow)
</font><font size=1>(Check out the link's on the
bottom)</b></font></h1><br><br>
<b>Was a super real nice P51D</b>!!<br><br>
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<h1><b>Local News 12/21/06</b></h1><br><br>
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<h1><b>WWII Plane Crashes on Highway 20</b></h1><br><br>
<b>After thirty minutes in the air, testing out the rebuilt engine of a
P-51 Mustang, pilot John Bagley made an emergency landing on Highway 20.
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"The thing that hurts the most is that this is a historic airplane,
in really good shape and it was just a choice airplane," said the
pilot John Bagley. <br><br>
This choice airplane, landed in the center divider, causing traffic in
Rexburg to be back up for hours on Thursday. <br><br>
Police and state troopers arrived on the scene immediately, roping off
the area, sending travelers on a detour in both the north and south bound
lanes. <br><br>
Both police and the FAA are investigating, they don't know what happened,
but the pilot did say he experienced some engine problems before he
crashed. <br><br>
Bagley says he was performing a stop-and-go procedure with the newly
restored engine. <br><br>
As he pulled off the runway a second time, the engine quit, started
running again, than quit once more. <br><br>
"I could see I wasn't going to make it. The only place I knew to go
was the median because I couldn't go south bound because I was going
faster than the cars north bound take them head on," Bagley
added.<br><br>
Shortly after the emergency landing, Bagley was able to make his way out
of the plane with only a few minor cuts and bruises. <br><br>
"It's amazing he walked out of this, and lucky he did," said
Rexburg Police Officer Shane Turman.<br><br>
Bagley is no stranger to a wild flight. He says he's almost used up all
of his nine lives, but when asked if he's reached his final destination,
“Heavens no,” he said, “you get in a car wreck you go back and drive a
car. I'm not giving up flying." <br><br>
Perhaps just in this plane. Crews came, destroying the remains, picking
the plane apart piece by piece to get it off the highway. <br><br>
The plane will be taken to a local hanger, where police and the FAA will
continue investigating the crash. <br><br>
Highway 20 has reopened.<br><br>
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Here is the link to the video clip...<br>
</b><a href="http://www.localnews8.com/news/local/4986806.html">
http://www.localnews8.com/news/local/4986806.html</a><br><br>
<b>History..</b><br>
<a href="http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/survivors/pages/44-74739.shtml">
http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/survivors/pages/44-74739.shtml</a>
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