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Old Oct 7, 2004 | 9:49 am
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Originally Posted by boilermaker
I've had a few like that (not commerical, but military and company planes).
I was in a C-130 20 years ago that clipped a tree coming in for a soft-field landing. It tore off the end of the wing; the entire flight was so darn rough and poorly-flown that for us grunts in the back, we didn't hardly realize what the idiot pilot had done until we marched out the back of the plane, and saw the remains of the tree growing out of the stub-ended wing.
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