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A B-17 once landed at an airfield in Belgium without any crew on board. Just by chance it was pointing in the right direction, with the right amount of lift and
by Stevvo 3y ago
A B-17 once landed at an airfield in Belgium without any crew on board. Just by chance it was pointing in the right direction, with the right amount of lift and drag and thrust.
- 1659447091 3y agoThis sounded like there had to be more to it but found this [1] and it makes it even weirder. > The parachutes were still onboard and no indication of gunfire or blood caused by hostile attacks were seen on the plane. [1] https://worldwarwings.com/still-unsolved-story-of-b-17-landing-with-crew-missing/ https://worldwarwings.com/still-unsolved-story-of-b-17-landi...
- i80and 3y agoA Quora answer[1] suggests that the "parachutes" found were just the empty packs, and the crew was found safe. That the plane landed intact is pretty cool though! [1] https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-the-crew-of-the-B-17-ghost-bomber-that-landed-empty-in-WW2 https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-the-crew-of-the-B-17-...
- ggambetta 3y agoFTA: "The Second World War II"...
- idontwantthis 3y agoI think there were experiments with RC B17s. I wonder if this was one and they chose to emergency land it but had to keep it a secret from the Belgian airfield crew.
- satiric 3y agoWhen my grandpa was navigating B24's in WWII, he saw a B24's wing flying by itself. The Japanese had set the plane on fire from nose to tail, and the body separated from the wings. The B24 has the wings on top of the fuselage, so the wings could stay together. The body, of course, fell into the clouds below, but the wings stayed aloft. And naturally, because they didn't have to carry a fuselage around, they accelerated, and lazily curved out of sight of grandpa, who thought he might have been the only person to ever see something like that (and survive to tell the tale...)
- Stevvo 3y agoAwesome and terrifying story, thank you for sharing.
- nthn_g 3y agoAlso in Belgium, in 1989 a MiG 23 crashed in a house killing one person after the pilot ejected over Poland. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Belgium_MiG-23_crash https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Belgium_MiG-23_crash