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Thursday, August 25, 2005

More Great Moments in Aviation History

EASTMAN, Ga. - A twin-engine plane crash landed on its belly at the Eastman-Dodge airport after the two people on board forgot to put down the landing gear.

The Georgia Aviation Technical College plane slid to a halt after scraping down the runway around 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, Eastman Fire Chief Carl Johnson said.

"They didn't know they had a problem until they touched down," Johnson said.

Now get this -- the pilot was an instructor at an Aviation school. His co-pilot was an intern flight instructor, and neither realized that they had a problem!!!

Read it here.

This comes just a few days after an Irish pilot and his passengers [who were aeronautical engineers] flew a considerable distance and landed a plane without noticing that half a wing had fallen off. [here]

I don't know whether to be encouraged by the fact that both planes functioned well despite major damage, or dismayed at the horrible incompetence of the humans flying them.


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