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Old 01-15-2004 | 04:17 PM
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Default RE: Interesting - Plane crashes

ORIGINAL: Bruno Stachel

Was it Flying magazine? I believe they had or may still have a column called Pilot Error.
It could be. I remember one for some reason. A Navy(?) pilot in an F-8 had taken off and he immediately had a bad yaw problem, corrected and it got worse to the opposite direction and he had to punch out. crash analysis, well he had forgotten to go all the way down his check list and he didn't unfold his wings and the control tower didn't see it either. Oh ya this was from a land base. they had an artist draw a picture of what this would like as there were no pictures of the take off and is sure was funny looking. I would think that they would have some sort of safe guard to prevent this from happening but then again that's what a checklist is for!