CRAZY STORIES AND ANECDOTES ABOUT PILOTS
Added on: 3rd Sep 2016
NOBUO FUJITA WAS ONE OF THE ONLY
JAPANESE PILOTS TO ATTACK THE MAINLAND
UNITED STATES DURING WORLD WAR II WHEN
HE DROPPED A COUPLE BOMBS OVER OREGON.
HE RETURNED YEARS LATER TO PRESENT HIS
FAMILY'S SWORD AS AN APOLOGY AND WAS
EVEN MADE AN HONORARY CITIZEN OF
THE CITY OF BROOKINGS
IN 2012, THE PILOT OF AN AIR CANADA PLANE
MISTOOK THE PLANET VENUS FOR ANOTHER
AIRCRAFT AND INITIATED A STEEP DIVE. 16 PEOPLE
WERE INJURED BECAUSE THEY BOUNCED OFF
THE CEILING AND THE PILOT ALMOST HIT
ANOTHER PLANE
HUGH THOMPSON, AN ARMY HELICOPTER PILOT
SAVED HUNDREDS OF VIETNAMESE VILLAGERS
WHEN HE LANDED HIS HELICOPTER BETWEEN A
VILLAGE AND HIS OWN FELLOW SOLDIERS.
HE THEN THREATENED TO OPEN FIRE IF THE
SOLDIERS DIDN'T LEAVE THE VILLAGERS ALONE
PHIL RASMUSSEN WAS ONE OF THE FEW AMERICAN
PILOTS TO SHOOT DOWN A JAPANESE PLANE DURING
THE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOUR. HE WAS FLYING
AN OBSOLETE PLANE IN HIS PYJAMAS
IN 1997, CRAIG BUTTON, PILOT OF AN A-10
THUNDERBOLT II TURNED OFF HIS RADIO DURING
TRAINING AND FLEW HUNDREDS OF MILES OFF
COURSE UNTIL HE CRASHED INTO A COLORADO
MOUNTAINSIDE. NOBODY KNOWS WHY
GENE RODDENBERRY, THE CREATOR OF STAR TREK,
SERVED IN WWII WITH A PILOT NAMED KIM NOONIEN
SINGH. GENE LOST CONTACT WITH KIM BUT NAMED
THE VILLAIN IN THE STAR TREK AFTER KIM HOPING
THAT HE WOULD NOTICE AND GET IN TOUCH
IN 1956, THOMAS W. ATTRIDGE'S JET WAS SHOT DOWN
DURING A TEST FLIGHT. IT WAS LATER FOUND THAT
HE HAD RUN INTO HIS OWN BULLETS THAT HE HAD
JUST FIRED
IN 1953, NO KUM-SOK, A NORTH KOREAN PILOT DEFECTED
TO SOUTH KOREA WITH HIS MIG-15. HE RECEIVED
A $100,000 REWARD FROM THE US MILITARY THANKS
TO OPERATION MOOLAH. THIS OPERATION WAS AN
AMERICAN LED EFFORT TO ACQUIRE A MIG AIRCRAFT
DURING THE COLD WAR, SR-71 BLACKBIRDS WERE
TASKED WITH FLYING OVER FOREIGN CEREMONIES
TO CREATE SONIC BOOMS WHEN HEADS OF STATE
WERE GREETING EACH OTHER
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