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What was so odd about the plane accident in Yucaipa, Calif?

It wasn’t real. As an April Fools’ Day joke a Billy Cheesman Jr. used a forklift to arrange a small aircraft on the fence that runs in front of his equipment rental business, as if it had nosedived there. He also strung yellow caution tape around to make it resemble a crash scene. The plane was a the two-seat experimental plane he hadn’t known what to do with. Cheesman notified the county sheriff’s office before he set up the prank at Redlands Yucaipa Rentals.