Posted on 09/01/2009 8:36:52 AM PDT by Wardenclyffe
An intoxicated pilot had to be guided to land by a rescue helicopter after he radioed the control tower to ask: "Where the bloody hell have you hidden yourself?"
The 65-year-old amateur pilot allegedly tanked up on beer and wine before taking to the skies above the eastern German state of Thuringia in his Cessna light aircraft on Saturday afternoon.
Once airborne, he served himself some more cocktails while at the controls.
Two hours later he was apparently so inebriated that he was unable to read the instruments telling him where the Schoengleida airfield was.
"Come on, I know you're down there," he radioed. "Where the bloody hell have you hidden yourself?"
Control tower staff say he also sang a few songs, cracked a mother-in-law joke and told them to "pull their fingers out as I've got a party to go to". Fearing instrument failure, the tower scrambled a rescue helicopter stationed at the airfield. It homed in on the man in clear blue skies some 50 miles west of the airport and gave instructions for the pilot to follow it back.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Didn't know where it was, but his pronunciation was spot on!
Call an exorcist. He’s been possessed by the spirit of Ted Kennedy. And that spirit needs spirits.
Is that you, Colonel Boyington?
this cracked me up. But what a fool.
“Hold my wheel chocks and watch this!”
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