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Small plane crash-lands in field off Athens Highway; pilot suffers minor injuries
Jacksonville man says mechanical trouble brought him down near school
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This small plane crash-landed in a field off Athens Highway in eastern Hall County on Friday. The pilot suffered minor injuries. - photo by David Barnes
Sol Williams didn’t want to land his plane in the middle of the busy Athens Highway at rush hour Friday afternoon, aiming toward the open pasture across from Sugar Hill Elementary School. “I was trying to make it to the airport. I wanted to land on blacktop instead of a field, but I was getting less and less altitude, so I had to look for the best place to put her down at,” he said.