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Area Boy Scouts assist pilot of downed plane
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Assistant Scoutmaster Bryan Puckette and nephew Forrest, 17, experienced more excitement that usual when the troop was canoeing down the Congaree River near Columbia, S.C., on Dec. 20. The group came upon a plane in the water moments after a crash landing.
When three area men joined their Scouting troop on an annual canoe trip over the Christmas holiday, they were met with a little more than the typical camping experience. “I saw this plane bank around to the left,” Flowery Branch resident Bryan Puckette said. “He was just above the trees, and he was sputtering.