When It's Not Your Time To Go !

If you ever experience a mechanical failure on a plane in the air, you'd want this pilot !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dl7UcVy90

Fake ? Or real ? You pick !

Fake ? Or real ? You pick ! Originally Posted by Charlie Brown

It's fake.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/onewing.asp

It's fake.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/onewing.asp Originally Posted by CaptainMidnight

Two real life's experiences: flying into a northern bush camp in 1958 in a Corporate Mooney turbo jet, the fuel system shut down and the pilot glided to the runway, foamed, no gear down: and we all walked out of the wreckage with bruises and muscle aches. Our pilot was a former bush pilot. Flew hundreds of hours with him over the 6 years I was employed by the paper making company.

The other: I had missed a flight home due to late departure of the first leg at DFW in 1987 ( best recollection) but as we landed, after another delay flying in circles, i saw a black plume of smoke off to th eside. At th egate I learned that was the plane I was supposed to be on. Never ever grumbled about delays since. I am a believer.

No such thing as a "Corporate Mooney Turbo Jet" . . .for the record.

Sure that wasn't a Mooney (Mitsubishi) Turbo Prop?

Dozens of them nest in Rogers, Arkansas at the WalMart terminal.

No such thing as a "Corporate Mooney Turbo Jet" . . .for the record. Originally Posted by MooneyFlyer

Oh you must be born after 1990; or older than me- close to death.

FYI, You can still buy one.

One crashed landed on the Municipal Hospital in front of the Municipal airport at Edmonton in 1982 - same failure- frozen gas tank transfer switch. Japanese made .

Sure that wasn't a Mooney (Mitsubishi) Turbo Prop?

Dozens of them nest in Rogers, Arkansas at the WalMart terminal. Originally Posted by Poppa_Viagra

Yes sorry turbo prop. We called them baby jets being Canadian rednecks.

Now that reminds me, I was on the first 737 flown in Canada when it didn't have reverse thrust. Landing at Port Hardy on northern Vancouver Island, a runway too short, between rocky beach on ocean at both ends, failing to brake in time, dropping the front gear over the embankment. No injuries- a days delay with few accommodations ( including no beer ) while CP Air mustered up enough smaller planes to rescue us. That was in or around 1966-67. no I was not scared, until after I told my wife who wanted me to put up drywall and not fly anymore. I hated drywall and kept flying.

My wife divorced me. Years later, she became my bff and our kids hold family get togethers. She is OK with me flying now.

I will stop. Yes many flying memories. I am a multimillion flyer, now retired, flying only 2 maybe three times a year.