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Stricken Pilot Lands Plane Safely In Illinois

But 65-Year-Old Dies In Hospital After Heart Attack

When we consider the arguments surrounding the need for a third-class FAA medical requirement, we usually debate two outcomes of medical incapacitation - fatal crashes, and non-fatal crashes. But there is at least a third possible outcome - no crash at all. Tuesday night at about 2130 CDT, a pilot who suffered a heart attack during a flight over McHenry County, Illinois put the plane down smoothly and without a scratch in a farm field, where responders were able to reach him.

The pilot was identified as 65-year-old Steve Nusbaum of Hebron, whose son Chance was watching as his dad landed the 10-year-old, two-place, Vaquero experimental. The Chicago Tribune reports responders used CPR and two impulses from a portable defibrilator before transporting the pilot to Centegra Hospital in McHenry.

Sadly, the elder Nusbaum didn't pull through. The Northwest Herald reports he was declared dead at the hospital later Tuesday night.

FMI: www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_incident/preliminary_data/media/M_1102_N.txt

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