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Pilot, Kin Flee RedsVIENNA (UPI) — A former Czechoslovak fighter pilot and his family were safely in Austria Monday after a dramatic escape from behind the Iron Curtain in a stolen two-seater plane.Janus Pavel ka, 40, a wartime Royal Air Force flier, told Austrian police he had waited 10 years for his chance.Last Saturday Pavelka, his wife, Eva, 35; his son, Jams, 4; his daughter, Maria, 6; and his brother-in-law, Vaclav, 15, creptinto the plane at the Aero Chib ofDeutsch Brod — only a few hundred yards from a military air base.Pavelka, who has not flown for at least 10 years, managed to land in a wheat field near Arbesbach, lower Austria, with a broken pro-: peEer and damaged fuselage.
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Nevada State Journal
Reno, Nevada, US
Tue, Sep 25, 1962
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