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.
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