The State : Student Pilot Survives Crash
A student pilot who survived after his plane crashed into a mountain in San Diego County was found about a mile from the wreckage by a sheriff’s search party. Mark Farrar, 22, of Chula Vista, was taken by a sheriff’s helicopter to Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, where he was in good condition after treatment for several facial fractures, a hospital spokeswoman said. No one else was aboard the Cessna 150, a sheriff’s spokesman said. A Federal Aviation Administration official said Farrar had taken off from Brown Field, where he worked at Mustang Aviation as a mechanic and gas truck driver. The plane later crashed in the Guatay Peak area of Pine Valley, about 50 miles east of San Diego.
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