This is the plane similar to the one this is supposed to have happened in/on/or about.
Posted on 07/31/2005 1:33:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
This is the plane similar to the one this is supposed to have happened in/on/or about.
Thanks!
Now that's a story!
God Bless his l'il ol' heart. And may the rest of his life be long and uneventful!
Every day since has been a bonus!
He's an Aggie......... figures
Figures
Agreed
Only a Longhorn would figure a way to fly out of an airplane and then finagle himself back in it. It happend to an Aggie on pure happenstance
:)
Amazing story though
While at the station hospital, Naval Air Station, Lemoore, CA in 1964, i changed a leg cast for a Naval Aviator who had survived a fall in the high sierras. his chute didn't open and he landed in the snow and then bounced into a tree trunk which broke his leg. i remember thinking that he must be one of the luckiest people in the world. but then only a few months later, the poor guy was shot down and killed over North Vietnam.
There is another story of a man who survived a fall from a bomber over Germany during WWII. He also landed in a tree. He either had no parachute or it failed to open.
Oh my.
Amazing!
I think I'd be dead from fright before hitting the ground.
It doesn't work like that.
As we used to say, it's only the sudden stop at the end.
The guy over Germany was a Lancaster tail gunner, the
gunner position was so small that they kept their chutes
in the tail of the plane and put them on in emergencies,
when his plane was hit he crawled out of the rear gun
position and went to put his chute on but it had already
been burned, so he just jumped, landed in a snow bank from
16,000 feet, when captured by the germans, (he broke both legs as I remember) they didn't believe him but later found
the remains of the bomber.
The 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment
Aggie!
His brother might be the Aggie that bought a bunch of septic tanks after the war but couldnt figure out how to fire them.
He landed in a forest. He hit the top of a large fir tree and bounced from branch to branch until hitting the ground...no legs broken...just a lot of cuts and bruises.
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