[Texas Eagle]

I heard Rush Limbaugh ask a pilot who called in after some sort of aircraft crash, "What do pilots think when they are flying a plane that they know is going to crash?" The pilot said, "We are trained to fly as far into the crash as possible."

Rush got a chuckle at this response but this incident bears witness to what that pilot said.

[Sundog]

Somebody register and give us the rest of the story, Please.

[Travis McGee]

Aeroping.

[martin_fierro]

[JohnA]

Unauthorized reprint

[JohnA]

a large (Montana) wildfire threatening about 1,500 homes

[JohnA]

What's New: Forest fires - 2007 is worst July on record (Europe - a report from Jerusalem Post.

[par4]

The crew elected to try an instrument approach,

Let's see, we're so far below VFR that "electing" to try an instrument approach isn't really an option, the crew made (and screwed up) an instrument approach. For them to hit the perimeter fence, they had to be way below the glide slope.

They were obviously not competent to fly into those conditions, or their instruments weren't functioning right. Regardless, most any other airplane would be a jigsaw puzzle strewn across the field.

[AlaskaErik]

I got to tour one in Uganda during the 1994 Rwanda famine relief. As a C-130 loadmaster I was most impressed with the overhead crane in the cargo compartment.