Oops!

   It wasn't what police were expecting when they got a call to the airport in Nipawin, Saskatchewan Thursday night.
   They'd received reports of a small, 2-seater aircraft that had crashed into a field, and had been damaged.
   The strange this was, there was no one on board when they arrived. They hadn't walked away after the incident because there was no one on board when the plane took off! RCMP say their initial investigation shows the pilot was trying to "prop start" the engine (also known as an external hand-start where the propeller is spun to fire the motor). When it started, it got up enough speed to allow the plane to actually take off and fly some 30 feet before crashing.
   The Transportation Safety Board is also looking into the incident.

TTFN