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Plane lands in Agee's field after running out of gas Saturday
By Arthur McLean
Editor

Pilot Lamar Hicks takes off in his Ag-Cat biplane from a field behind Harold and Doris Agee's home on Tallahatta Springs Road Saturday morning. photo by arthur mclean

With all this talk of a regional airport lately, Harold and Doris Agee may have beaten the governments to the punch.

Doris Agee heard what she at first thought was a gas-powered leaf blower. But when the noise passed close over the top of her house, she realized it might be an airplane flying close by.

What the Agee's didn't expect was to have the field behind their house turn into a landing strip.

Lamar Hicks, piloting an aerial fertilizing plane ran out of gas while trying to make his way back to Pine Hill's airport Saturday.

He was forced to land his Ag-Cat biplane in the first open field he found, which happened to be Agee's.

Hicks said he had about 18,000 hours of flying time and it wasn't the first time he'd been forced to land in a field.

But, it didn't get any easier, he said.

This also isn't the first time the Agees have had air traffic in their back yard.

The Agees said a helicopter landed in their field once before.

Hicks was able to gas up his plane and take off safely Saturday.

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