Pilot's family talks about scary moments before crash

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Monday, January 26, 2015
Pilot's family talks about scary moments before crash
A pilot's family in Seattle described the scary few hours before Lue Morton had to ditch a plane into the Pacific Ocean.

HAWAII (KGO) -- A pilot has quite a story to tell about the plane he was supposed to deliver to Australia and he didn't quite make it. Short of 250 miles from Hawaii the pilot deploys the plane's parachute as the plane develops a fuel problem. The plane then floated slowly to the water. That is despite the addition of an auxiliary fuel tank that was installed in Northern California.

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