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Sat Jun 29, 2024, 08:42 PM Jun 2024

Nurse helps pilot who crashed plane into her pickup truck after takeoff: 'Accidents happen'

https://www.kold.com/2024/06/28/nurse-helps-pilot-who-crashed-plane-into-her-pickup-truck-after-takeoff-accidents-happen/

(1:58 min. video at link)

Nurse helps pilot who crashed plane into her pickup truck after takeoff: ‘Accidents happen’

The 41-year-old nurse who was behind the wheel said it’s “so unbelievable.” (KCRA)

By KCRA via CNN Newsource
Published: Jun. 28, 2024 at 3:28 AM EDT

PLEASANT GROVE, Calif. (KCRA) - A California woman is sharing her story after a plane crashed into her pickup truck on Tuesday.

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The Federal Aviation Administration says the crop dusting plane, a single-engine RC-3, clipped a fence, then hit Arata’s truck while attempting to take off from a runway right next to the road.

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Arata says once witnesses got her out of the truck where she was trapped, her nursing instincts kicked in and she checked on the pilot.

“He’s like, ‘Are you OK?’” Arata recalled. “And we hugged, you know, and he’s like, ‘I’m so sorry.’ And I was like, ‘That’s why it’s an accident. Accidents happen.’”

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Nurse helps pilot who crashed plane into her pickup truck after takeoff: 'Accidents happen' (Original Post) sl8 Jun 2024 OP
Eek, that must have been a shock wendyb-NC Jun 2024 #1
Nurse Arata sounds like a very kind soul. Glad both of them are ok. Deuxcents Jun 2024 #2
eek. AllaN01Bear Jun 2024 #3
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