90-year-old pilot completes 90 US-Canada crossings

Published June 4, 2013 10:04pm ET



NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A 90-year-old pilot completed his birthday quest to fly 90 passes across the U.S.-Canadian border in his Cessna 172 Tuesday, even tallying a few extras a day after high winds got in the way of his plans.

“I’ll be back in 10 years for my 100th,” John Lawton of Seville, Ohio, said a few hours after parking his 1964 airplane at a Niagara Falls airport.

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