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In 2002, after an amateur pilot unknowingly lost one of his plane's wheels on takeoff, it was a 6th-grader who came to his rescue

A PEOPLE story detailed how 12-year-old Dustin Baker, a volunteer and aviation buff, immediately saw the wheel come off

So he took matters into his own hands to ensure the pilot could make a safe landing

A quick-witted sixth-grader used his ingenuity to save a pilot who had unknowingly lost one of his plane's wheels.

It was Nov. 3, 2002 when 40-year-old amateur pilot Randy Lehfeldt took off in his ultralight plane from the runway of tiny Redlands Municipal Airport in California. Unbeknownst to Lehfeldt, one of the plane's wheels had fallen off as he took off — something a volunteer at the airport, 12-year-old Dustin Baker, made note of right aw

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