Life with Cars.(Jack Roush in an airplane accident, and rescued by former Marine Larry Hicks)(Brief Article)
AutoWeek, July, 2002 by Ceppos, Rich
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No man is an island, but Jack Roush almost became one this April when the small plane he was flying pirouetted into a lake in the middle of a gated community in Troy, Alabama. Roush, legendary motorsports honcho and man-with-the-straw-hat, was suddenly, in very real terms, in over his head. The day of the ill-fated flight was Jack's 60th birthday, and it might have been his last had it not been for Larry Hicks, a retired Marine Sergeant Major who saw the whole thing happen and launched himself into the water.
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Roush was trapped in the plane's open cockpit, upside down and ...
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