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How to land a plane when you lose a wing (5 Photos)


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Comments:

  1. Joe says:

    wings just fall off all the time, right?

  2. unfairrobot says:

    So the answer is: you crash?

  3. LT B says:

    Sure beats making a smoking hole in the ground.

  4. vince says:

    Granted, by definition, this is "landing" a plane. However, a plane crashing to the ground also meets the strict definition.
    I would have called this post, "How to safely get back to earth when you have a shit-your-pants moment"

  5. antrid says:

    Using the ejector seat would have been much more dramatic.

  6. Brian Larter says:

    Using a parachute seems like a lame way out. why not just land the damn plane like a real man!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQVv6wEPzk

    • top dog says:

      Well in case you didn't notice, the plane only had one wing. It's kinda hard to land a plane with one wing, might work with a toy plane, not a real one. The main thing was to get down safely, I believe the pilot did that.

    • Guest says:

      Yup yup, your linked video is all kinds of fake.

  7. It would have been funny if it just happened to be full of silverware instead of a parachute

  8. TheDude says:

    This is an experimental aircraft (Rans S-9). This is a 1000lbs aircraft… there is no ejection seat, but nice try. This particular individual was stressing this aircraft far beyond its capabilities. Multiple times, he negatively loaded the wing, and it was only a matter of time before he experienced catastrophic failure.

    No one leaves the ground expected to have an accident.

  9. TheOtherDude says:

    Oh and you obviously know that the one wing landing is completely fake.

  10. Gecko says:

    I love breakthroughs in safety technology
    saves pilots lives
    saves buildings and property
    saves the lives of those back down on the ground.

  11. BigDingo says:

    parachutes are Hax

  12. TheNextDude says:

    I didn't say no one has ever accomplished a one wing landing….. I said the previous video was fake. Further more, let's be honest, what is the likely hood of this actually happening.

    You also have to understand that your average civilian pilot has no where near the training nor flying hours a military pilot will have.

    Parachutes are absolutely not a HOAX, try doing some research before posting. Full frame parachutes have accounted for hundreds of lives saved and as soon as naive people of the world start actually thinking, the parachute systems will be giving the chance to save hundreds more.

  13. equalizermax says:

    I don't think he survived

  14. TheNextDude says:

    The pilot walked away with out injury

  15. Dustmiretheturd says:

    My dad did that in a plane once. My dad is a plane

  16. Underhill says:

    Ballistic Recovery Systems of Minnesota is a manufacturer of similar parachute systems.

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