On 2006-02-22, Newps wrote:
It was a Commanche and it was totalled after it crash landed. No
airplane has ever taken off and flown for more than a few seconds
without the ending being a hell of a wreck.

There was a pilotless small tailwheel aircraft in Illinois that got away
from the person hand-propping it, then went on to fly a couple of hours
(pilotless) before landing in a field in what looked like a passable
forced landing (the aircraft was damaged, but not a 'hell of a wreck').

Unfortunately I can't find the magic incantations to bring up the NTSB
report - the details I remember is that the plane climbed to over 12000
feet and a police aircraft followed it for a while.

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