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A pilot's bad timing

Posted at 11:45 AM on July 29, 2011 by Bob Collins (2 Comments)
Filed under: Aviation

Attention, Air Force and Alabama National Guard pilots: The world's largest general aviation show is probably a bad place and time to ...

Land your plane too fast...

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.. run out of runway...

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... and nose your $25 million airplane into the ground.

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There were a lot of people with cameras when it happened yesterday in Oshkosh.

(Photos from Brian Leach)

Update 1:52 p.m. -- And now we've got video!


Comments (2)

I hope recent spending cuts have not forced Alabama to drop the comprehensive. A new bumper cover for my car was $850. I can only imagine the bill for this.

Posted by John | July 29, 2011 8:25 PM


Nothing like running a little sod through the turbine to shine up those blades!

Posted by Paul J | July 30, 2011 7:53 AM


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