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Crash and Burn: Pilots 60 Year Old Claim Just Won’t Fly

28 Jun, 2012 Bob Wilson

A pilot who was crop dusting and crashed his plane in 1953 has filed a first time claim for the injuries he received. And I thought the wait at TSA Security was interminable. Len Fisher […]

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