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local/state Battalion/Page 5 February 17, 1982 ^AScM student aids in rescue : pilot tube, which measures air speed, is Mike Good- end’s souvenir from a plane crash Dec. 28. Goodfriend four other men were en route to a fun-filled skiing i when the Cessna 210 lost its engine and the plane was ’ to go down about four miles from Gunnison Air- : in Colorado. All five men survived. by Laura Williams Battalion Staff The FAA is still trying to de termine the cause of a Dec. 28 plane crash in which two men, one a student at Texas A&M University, saved three others in below-freezing weather. The five Dallas men survived the crash that resulted when the engine of their Cessna 210 failed four miles from the Gunnison Airport in Colorado. One of the two quick thinking men, Mike Good- friend, has returned to Texas A&M as a graduate bio engineering student. Kirk Fichtner, who is in a body cast, has returned to Texas Tech University. His brother Mark, a senior at the University of Texas at Dallas, is wearing a back brace and their father Jay is wearing a pelvic, back and halo brace. “The FAA is still working to find out what happened,” Good- friend said. “We don’t know if it was a fuel line or what, but we do know we had plenty of fuel.” Pilot Jay Fichtner, a Dallas lawyer, was the most seriously injured of the group with a broken back, neck, pelvic bone and ribs. Fichtner, 55, was flying Mark, Kirk and friends Kevin McKool and Goodfriend, to Crested Butte, Colo., for a ski trip. “We had time to radio in that we were going down,” Good friend said. “He (Fichtner) told us to fasten ourselves in and that he was going to try to land the plane on a road somewhere. We were on our final approach, but he couldn’t just glide it down.” Goodfriend said after the pilot failed to find a road, he tried to set the plane down on the slope of a mountain. “The left wing was tipped and caught the hill before the rest of the plane, and that’s why we crashed,” he said. Surprisingly, everyone was calm because they thought Fich- tner’s landing would be success ful, he said. When Goodfriend regained consciousness, McKool, 23, was outside the plane. “We just sat about 10 feet from the plane, trying to get ourselves together,” Goodfriend said. “About 30 minutes after we were down, Kevin decided to go for help.” McKool later told Goodfriend that he had climbed a small mountain and crossed a stream in the below-freezing weather to get to a house where he found a woman who took him to the air port. Goodfriend said he took a safety course at the University that helped him take quick ac tion. “I knew to look for blood first, and I didn’t see any,” he said. “I also knew to watch for hypothermia, so for the first half hour I was putting on gloves and getting jackets on everyone.” Goodfriend carefully pulled the injured Fichtners from the wreckage. “I couldn’t get Mark out of the plane after he re gained consciousness because his leg was caught in one of the shoulder straps,” Goodfriend said. “He said it hurt when I pul led him, and I didn’t want to aggravate the injury.” Two hours after the crash, Dick Arnold of Aspen, Colo., lo cated the upside-down wreck age. Arnold had been preparing to search for a cross-county skier and was diverted to the sight, along with an Army helicopter. The helicopter lifted the men out about 2:30 p.m. McKool had not been heard from. Good friend said McKool was waiting for them when they arrived at the Gunnison County Hospital. “The neurosurgeon told me that had Mike not handled them as carefully as he did, my hus band and the others could have suffered irreparable spinal damage,” Rae Ann Fichtner, wife of the pilot, said. Fichtner is expected to be in braces for three to six months. Fichtner has been flying for about 35 years, she said. “The National Transportation Acci dent Board is still investigating it, but we know it wasn’t a pilot error,” she said. Who can top their bottoms? The new County Seat in Post Oak Mall can. We’ve got all the shirts you love to wear. And during our Grand Opening Feb. 17 to 20 you’ll save big! Guys’ Levi’s western shirts, reg. $23. Now $12.99- Gals’ colorful print shirts, reg. $16. 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