When my dad was training at Davis Monthan in 86s in 55 I think
They had an older WWII and Korea vet come in dead stick
His last words to tower were “I got it”
Hit the skid too hard and those donut fuel tanks in the fuselage went up like a marshmallow on the stick too long
Flying can be hazardous
From a 1926 poster:
“Aviating, like the Sea
is not inherently dangerous
But like that sea, it is ready
to punish the briefest moment’s
laxness or inattention.”
It was printed over a photograph of 100 acres of completely open prairie, with just one single, solitary tree... and an airplane in the tree.