chris
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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/01/27/m1a_KEMPER_0127.html
High above a rural stretch of Florida east of Fort Myers, a young student pilot on her first solo flight began to panic.
She had stopped receiving the radio signals that served as her way points in the sky. Now she was lost, and her single-engine trainer was running out of fuel.
Desperation set in.
If her instructor were there, he would have told her to call for help on an emergency frequency. Instead, the student reached for her cellphone and thumbed a text message to a friend, also enrolled at Kemper Aviation flight school near Lantana.
I'm lost, the message read. What do I do?
Moments later, the student's plane crash-landed in a field of tall grass near LaBelle. She emerged with minor injuries.
High above a rural stretch of Florida east of Fort Myers, a young student pilot on her first solo flight began to panic.
She had stopped receiving the radio signals that served as her way points in the sky. Now she was lost, and her single-engine trainer was running out of fuel.
Desperation set in.
If her instructor were there, he would have told her to call for help on an emergency frequency. Instead, the student reached for her cellphone and thumbed a text message to a friend, also enrolled at Kemper Aviation flight school near Lantana.
I'm lost, the message read. What do I do?
Moments later, the student's plane crash-landed in a field of tall grass near LaBelle. She emerged with minor injuries.
