This years “Wrong-way" Corrigan award goes to the “dozy” Irish pilot who “flew his plane for two hours before he noticed that five-and-a-half feet of one wing had been torn off by a tree on take-off. The Irish pilot told investigators he thought he had been "struck by a little bird" on takeoff in his five-seater Cessna 210.”
Not only did the pilot not notice that HE WAS MISSING A WING!!! But his passengers were similarly unaware. They included two “top flight engineers on their way to fix a Boeing 767.” That’s right – “no one noticed that half the left wing, containing one fuel tank, was missing.”
How did they finally figure out that something was wrong?
“The unnamed pilot was forced to make an emergency landing at
It was not until he was finally on the ground that the pilot realized his predicament. An airport spokesman said, "The pilot was the most shocked of us all as he had not realised the extent of the damage while he was flying."
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