November 7, 2007: Plane lands on I-70

[Coign]

The e-mail that went around work that day.

-----Original Message-----
From: EC Alert Traffic [mailto:traffic570@ecalert.org]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:22 PM
To: ECALERT
Subject: Important message from EC ALERT

Wb I70 mm 144 closed due to aircraft on interstate. use hwy 6 as
alternate route. expected to be open shortly

Sent on: 10/10/2007 14:22:12


------------------------------------------

The pilot is my former boss. I took one of the first flights in that plane years ago. On the way to CA he wanted to learn how his fuel gauge related to when the tank was actually empty. So we flew until we emptied one tank, stalled ever so slightly, switched to the other tank. He is a wily pilot and I am happy to hear he brought down his plane safely.

Katie & Lance - not sure if you flew as much as I did with him.

Holly

So a couple of my coworkers had flown with the guy.

It would have been this stretch of road just a few miles shy of the Eagle airport.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=s&ie=U...0595&z=14&om=1

And even though people say that is why freeways have straight stretches of road, it is a myth.

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/faq.htm#question30