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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.
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Alman
said the monument
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1982 state fair and completion
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DmmM■John Alman, vice president
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n on the State Fair grounds
1 fall, would not commemo-
jte the war itself, but the Tex-
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p Vietnam veteran is a signifi-
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ith collapse of the Republic of
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