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Show LUCKY MAN: Tom Woodhouse, 31, Spanish Fork, survived this crash last Thursday. He barely escaped from the burning plane before it exploded in a ball of fire. Eye witnesses reported the plane, loaded with Parathion fertilizer, had completed its first pass over an alfalfa field owned by Ralph Pearson, when the pilot pulled out he entangled the tip of the left wing in power lines, snapping poles off at the ground. The Piper Pawnee was slowed and reversed, skidding to a stop about 150 yards from the road, 10 miles south of Milford. Woodhouse, crop dusting for the Spanish Fork Flying Service out of Russell Mayer's strip, seven miles south of Milford, suffered 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree burns on his hands and face. He was flown from Milford hospital Saturday to Payson hospital. He is expected to be released soon. |