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  • April 15th 2007 Issue
  • Crash victim eager to fly

    Stemilt pilot Len Pugsley owes his life to colleague Mike Parrish.

    Len Pugsley walked miles, hurting with every step, in an effort to get fit again. But the most painful moment was yet to come. Len Pugsley still doesn’t remember the accident last August. His first hazy recollection is of waking up in a hospital bed at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, and wondering why he was there, hurting all over. “You hit an elk,” his wife, Lisa, told him. As he pondered it over, it made sense that he could have hit an elk while flying his airplane. Len, a pilot for Stemilt Growers, Inc., Wenatchee, Washington, was flying about 1,000 […]

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