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Three River MI Lands on Frozen River


What: BE36 Bonanza en route from Brownsville, Texas to Three Rivers airport (Also reported as a single engine Cessna)
Where: on the frozen Saint Joseph river, east of Three Rivers MI
When: 01/06/2009 Tuesday afternoon.
Who: pilot, Fred Nelson Jr., his father, Fred Nelson Sr., and a dog. Both men and dog escaped injury.
Why: The pilot had been attempting to reach the Three Rivers airport. Icing on the wings forced the pilot to make a forced landing on a frozen river at Three Rivers where the river is half a mile wide and the ice is six inches thick

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