An 87-year-old pilot was unhurt but undoubtedly uncomfortable after his Cessna ended up in trees short of the runway at Gettysburg Regional Airport in Pennsylvania on Saturday. The pilot, who has not been identified, hung from his seatbelt for four hours while 75 firefighters figured out how to get him down from the aircraft. The plane ended up hanging nose-down from a stand of trees after the pilot tried to get back to the field after an engine failure shortly after takeoff. He apparently didn't get very close. "The rescue was made more difficult by the fact that it was in the trees but also because the trees were so far off the road or the runway," Gettysburg Fire Department spokesman Russell McCutcheon told WHP News.
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