Crash Pilot Tapes Scalp Back On

Posted by Mike Richard on August 31, 2007
Filed under: Odds + Ends, Sidelines

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I don’t typically like posting back-to-back crash stories (see yesterday’s If You’re Not Yet Afraid of Flying …), but this is just too good. Via The Age:

A young pilot who crashed in a New Zealand mountain range taped a chunk of his scalp back on and trekked for two hours to raise help for his injured student.

Just to be clear: he taped his scalp back on.

As in: the scalp fell off of his head. And he used tape to secure it back on his noggin.

Student pilot Nick Eagleson, 33, was knocked out in the crash but Bateman managed to crawl out of the wreckage with a badly gashed scalp and free his companion.

He used his survival kit to dress his wound before walking eight kilometres down a steep valley to get help.

Jesus, that’s gotta take some balls. Kudos to you, Mr. Bateman. If you’re ever in RI, I’ll be glad to buy you a pint.

And somehow the media gives us “heroes” like Michael Vick? It’s tragic.

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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