what's the craziest thing that has happened to you in an airplane?

[spg2bmd]

I "heard" about this chick....

 

[JohnnyP]

....

I once made a nice landing in a dash8, once.

 

[aucfi]

Half mile high club

 

[JimG]

I got CO poisoning and accidentally (well...I wasn't exactly thinking 100%) flew into IMC a few minutes later.

Continued to fly on to my destination (about another 20 min.) by hand, while navigating with only a handheld GPS unit in the dash as I threw up, and fought conciousness.

Without an instrument rating either.

Fortunately, my destination was only marginal VFR below 1000' AGL, or I'd have been in trouble.

 

[navigator72]

I fell alseep while on Fire patrol.
I put a plane into a spin at 1500' and recovered with 500' to spare.

 

[Flysher]

I flew a plane backwards once.

 

[Big Duke Six]

You flew A-10's?

 

[FN FAL]

You flew A-10's?

No, he was kneeling on the seat and steering with his butt cheeks.

 

[4fanman]

The craziest things to happen in an airplane?

There was this one trip where the the freight showed up on time, the wx was severe clear, it was daytime, and we weren't in Mexico.

 

[Traderd]

No, he was kneeling on the seat and steering with his butt cheeks.

Good one.

I had a crew chief report that two male soilders in the aft row were engaging in oral sex and that one soldier had vacated his seat in the center row to observe. We landed at the objective and it was discovered one of the participants was a female. No problem, carry on. As I am fairly certain they did after we left.

 

[crash-proof]

No, he was kneeling on the seat and steering with his butt cheeks.

Somehow I twisted this in my mind as a scene in a cockpit where the F/A walks and catches the pilot buttcheek-flyin, then she turns around and slowly closes the door behind her.

Yes i'm tryin to peddle this script to hollywood.

 

[Flysher]

No, he was kneeling on the seat and steering with his butt cheeks.

:laugh: :laugh:

 

[FN FAL]

Good one.

I had a crew chief report that two male soilders in the aft row were engaging in oral sex and that one soldier had vacated his seat in the center row to observe. We landed at the objective and it was discovered one of the participants was a female. No problem, carry on. As I am fairly certain they did after we left.

I was thinking more along the lines of "bart simpson" butt cheek flying, not "candy stripers gone wild" butt cheek flying, but who am I to keep you from running with it.

 

[Gorilla]

We arrived over Guatemala City at night, and there weren't a half-dozen potent thunderstorms and driving rain over the field.
...and the braking action was good! And the 738 flaps 40 landing was gentle!!

Seriousness: Early in my aviation career, I was in a piston single, a Grumman AA-1B, stupidly doing a night flight from Tampa to Crestview, Fla. Sea fog rolled in and covered all of the Florida panhandle in a matter of minutes. I had no fuel to go anywhere, as everything in range was severe IMC. All I had was a lousy Escort 110 in a VMC airplane. So I circled Crestview for a short time, sweating bullets, then actually began heading towards Eglin to ask for a PAR, and failing that, to let down over the water and ditch, rather than auger in over land. At that moment, it was like the hand of God opened a hole over Crestview; I spiraled in and landed on fumes. Worst thing was my wife was with me. She couldn't figure out why I was shaking like a leaf. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

 

[landlover]

There was this one trip where the the freight showed up on time, the wx was severe clear, it was daytime, and we weren't in Mexico.

amen brother!!