STORIES AND ANECDOTES ABOUT PILOTS
Added on: 21st Nov 2016
ART SCHOLL, THE PILOT WHO DID CAMERA WORK
FOR TOP GUN DIED WHILE FILMING WHEN HIS
PLANE COULDN'T RECOVER FROM A FLAT SPIN
IN 1994, THE PILOT OF AN AEROFLOT FLIGHT (593)
LET HIS SON SIT AT THE CONTROLS WHILE IT WAS
FLYING FROM MOSCOW TO HONG KONG. THE BOY
TURNED OFF AUTOPILOT AND SENT THE PLANE
CRASHING INTO THE SIDE OF A MOUNTAIN
IN 1958, A PILOT EJECTED FROM HIS F-106 WHEN
IT ENTERED A FLAT SPIN. HE WAS SURPRISED TO
SEE IT COME OUT OF THE SPIN AND LAND ITSELF
IN A CORNFIELD. TODAY, THE PLANE IS KNOWN
AS THE "CORNFIELD BOMBER"
SCOTT O'GRADY, THE REAL PILOT ON WHICH THE
MOVIE BEHIND ENEMY LINES WAS BASED ENDED
UP SUING FOX BECAUSE THEY DEPICTED HIM AS
A SOLDIER WHO "DISOBEYS ORDERS AND SWEARS"
12 CYANIDE PILLS WERE LOCATED IN THE COCKPIT
OF THE ENOLA GAY. THE CREW WAS INSTRUCTED
TO TAKE THESE PILLS IN CASE THE BOMBING OF
HIROSHIMA WENT WRONG
IN 2001, ROWAN ATKINSON (MR BEAN) WAS IN A
PLANE WITH HIS FAMILY WHEN THE PILOT PASSED
OUT. ROWAN TOOK THE CONTROLS AND SLAPPED
THE PILOT UNTIL THE PILOT WOKE UP
IN 2009, TWO NORTHWEST PILOTS LOST THEIR
LICENCES WHEN THEY OVERSHOT THEIR
DESTINATION BY NEARLY 200 MILES. THEY
ONLY REALIZED THEIR MISTAKE WHEN THE
FLIGHT ATTENDANT ASKED THEM ABOUT
LANDING. APPARENTLY THEY WERE BOTH
ON THEIR LAPTOPS
TEX JOHNSON, A PILOT WHO WAS DEMONSTRATING
A BOEING 707 OVER WASHINGTON DURING THE
1955 AIRSHOW, DID A BARREL ROLL. WHEN THE
BOEING EXECUTIVE ASKED HIM "WHAT THE HECK
HE WAS DOING", HE REPLIED THAT HE WAS
"SELLING AIRPLANES". HE WENT ON TO DO
ANOTHER BARREL ROLL
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