www.chicagotribune.com — What do you do when your son is late to a tennis tuneup and team tryouts are two days away? A Lake Villa man hopped in his Piper Clipper airplane Saturday, breezed above the congested roads and landed at a golf course across a highway from the tennis club, where skis on the underside of his four-seater glided across the snow-covered fairway. Police received worried calls about a plane circling ...
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Ill. Pilot Lands Plane On Golf Course - On Purpose
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
The CHICAGO DAILY HERALD flies over news of a small plane that recently made a landing on a suburban golf course. But the real story is the pilot did the touch-down on purpose . Last Saturday, Robert Kadera brought his Piper PA-16 Clipper down onto the 7th fairway of the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort. After receiving numerous 911 calls, police arrived at the course, where they found Kadera & his 14-year-old son standing by the plane. Why did he do it? Was it a prank? Was he trying to make some sort of statement? In a way. Kadera said he was trying to get his son to tennis ...
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... The pilot didn't need to emergency land or bail out because of a smoking engine, he just needed to get his kid to tennis practice on time. ...
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www.chicagotribune.com 3/4/2008 — What do you do when your son is late to a tennis tuneup and team tryouts are two days away? A Lake Villa man hopped in his Piper Clipper airplane Saturday, breezed above the congested roads and landed at a golf course across a highway from the tennis ...
What do you do when your son is late to a tennis tuneup and team tryouts are two days away? A Lake Villa man hopped in his Piper Clipper airplane Saturday, breezed above the congested roads and landed at a golf course across a highway from the tennis ...
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