Writer Richard Bach crashed on his own plane

The famous American writer Richard Bach was hospitalized with severe injuries after his plane crashed on one of the islands of the San Juan archipelago, near the Pacific coast of Washington.

Easton Gilbert G Searey, a single -engine aircraft controlled by the writer, touched the power line and collapsed to the ground. From the 76-year-old Bach, the tourists who were nearby, which were lying on the roof, took the tourists nearby and took him to the hospital, ITAR-TASS reports.

According to the doctors of the Harborus Clinic in Seattle, the author of the bestseller of the 1970s "A Seagull named Jonathan Livingston" acted in serious condition.

The writer's son James Bach said that, in addition to numerous bruises, his father has a severe head injury, as well as his shoulder. However, according to him, the state of Bach-Senior is improving.

The Easton Gilbert G Searey aircraft is the main vehicle for a writer living on one of the islands of the San Juan archipelago.

In his youth, Richard Bach was a pilot of the American Air Force. At the end of service in the army, he did not leave heaven and was engaged in the implementation of the piloting figures behind the helm of civilian aircraft. The plots of most Bach works are built on the theme of the sky and flight.

“Father always said that his religion is flights. He is a born and fanatical aviator,” said James Bach. “It would be a terrible blow for him if he recovered, but he could no longer fly.”

The world fame Bachu-Sr. was brought by the novel “A Seagull named Jonathan Livingston” /Jonathan LivingSton Seagull /, which was published in 1970. The book dispersed more than 1 million copies, becoming a world bestseller. In 1973, the story was filmed, and a year later, published in the Soviet Union in the magazine "Foreign Literature".