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Pilot hurt in plane crash at Thetford airport
Published: Monday, December 18, 2006
THETFORD - A pilot from Post Mills was injured Sunday morning when the
plane he was piloting crashed at the Post Mills Airport in Thetford,
said state police in Bradford.
Andy Gelston, 45, was transported by helicopter to Dartmouth Hitchcock
Medical Center for unspecified injuries after the engine on his light
sport aircraft stalled at between 50 and 100 feet in the air and
crashed, nose first, at the end of the grass runway.
The Federal Aviation Administration is conducting an investigation.
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