Quick-thinking pilot Reuben Bakker helped save passengers from disaster
By Mike Celizic -TODAYshow.com contributor
Brandi Hepburn doesn’t remember a lot because it all happened so quickly. One moment she was sitting in the back seat of a glider with her 11-year-old son, being towed up for a pleasant flight over Boulder, Colo. An instant later, the tow plane was rammed by another small plane, and Hepburn and her son were flying through a searing fireball. Three people were killed, and the death toll could have been more if not for one pilot’s quick thinking. “I felt the heat on my forehead as we flew through the flames,” Hepburn told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Tuesday in New York. “I was horrified.” READ MORE
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