It was a beautiful day in the Colum bia River Gorge. Hood River Airport is located in a picturesque valley, surrounded by mountains. A pilot was in his backyard garden enjoying the sunshine. He heard an airplane engine start to sputter, then quit, and listened to the sound of a loud impact in the neigh boring vineyard. He jumped the fence and raced to the crash scene. There he found an aircraft nose down between the rows of red grapes.
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