Dodge County emergency personnel responded to a plane crash on Monday, July 4 off of the Dubois Church Road in northern Dodge County shortly after 8:00 a.m. Dodge County sheriff’s deputies, Gresston and Roddy firefighters and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel arrived to find the pilot of a small airplane trapped inside the wreckage atop a pine tree about 50 feet off the ground in a pine thicket with heavy undergrowth.
Emergency personnel were unsuccessful in reaching the pilot with ladders or bucket trucks due to the location of the crash and the height at which the plane was lodge in the treetop.
A private citizen, Teron Allen, who owns Allen Tree Service, responded to the scene. Allen used his equipment and climbed the tree to rescue the pilot. Allen secured the pilot in a harness and lowered the pilot to awaiting paramedics through ropes and repelling equipment. Allen risked his own life to help the injured pilot.
I learned from the Sun'Fun Fly- In air shows(which many pilots attend in Fl) that an ultralight is an aircraft that one can assemble from a kit in their garage or backyard. As a pilot who is trained to fly a Cessna, (which is the Volkswagen of the aircraft line)I would never attempt to fly an Ultralight.
Ultralights seems to have a bad track record for flying and the FAA seems not to put them and their pilots under the spotlight as they do pilots of other aircraft and the aircraft they fly.
Pilots are PLANE crazy and this include myself.
I bet the pilot was one happy man to see your face. You did a great job with the rescue.
You will have to add pilot rescue on your business cards :) May God continue to bless you and your family, remember I love you all best. Crystal