Moments of fear at Chattanooga airport in Tennessee (United States). The pilot of a FedEx Boeing 757 with a malfunctioning landing gear was forced to perform an unusual and dangerous maneuver to avoid the worst. Without wheels, the plane landed directly on its underside and then “slided” on the airport runway. Alarmed as the cargo […]
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There is a cobra on the plane: the pilot had to make an emergency landing
For Rudolph Erasmus, a South African airplane pilot, the flight from Cape Town to Nelspruit in the north of the country should be a short and routine journey like any other. All was well until the pilot noticed an unexpected “passenger” in the cabin: not a human, but a cobra crawling over him as the […]