Ditching Perfectly Done
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Ditching Perfectly Done
EMERGENCY DITCHING, TEXTBOOK STYLE: After pilot Dana Lake lost first one
engine, then the other, in a Piper Navajo en route from Nantucket to
Beverly, Mass., Sunday night, he radioed the nearest control tower and
brought the plane down in the 50-degree waters of Massachusetts Bay. As
the plane filled with water, Lake climbed out, inflated a life raft and
helped the eight pax, five of them children, to safet
engine, then the other, in a Piper Navajo en route from Nantucket to
Beverly, Mass., Sunday night, he radioed the nearest control tower and
brought the plane down in the 50-degree waters of Massachusetts Bay. As
the plane filled with water, Lake climbed out, inflated a life raft and
helped the eight pax, five of them children, to safet
