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Purpose and Request for Experiences
The purpose of this site is to invite airline (or military) crewmembers to post amusing, interesting, or terrifying experiences that they had encountered at any time during the last 60 years, along with any available pictures and bio. This site is subject to format rearrangements as experience suggests. Please feel free to submit experiences, being as precise as possible, and whether you want your name attached to it.
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Unusual aviation stories provided by Transocean Airlines and others (some now deceased):
Captain John Russell (deceased)
"Sabotaging" the post-WWII Marshall aid program for Afghanistan. (to be posted).
Interesting experiences of Captain Rodney Stich (Details as time permits):
Passenger "mutiny."
Plane load of 2,000 smelly monkeys and impending job loss.
Unloading dead monkeys over Italian towns.
Escaped monkeys roaming frigid Gander, New Foundland airport.
Caught in 1953 Iranian revolution.
Requirement to land in Cyprus before landing in Arab country.
Passenger using credit card for thousands of gallons of fuel.
Avoiding landing in Beirut.
Midnight landing at unlighted Wake Island runway.
Sharing cockpit with former Japanese wartime pilot.
Strong headwinds over North Atlantic winds preventing reaching land.
Strong headwinds in Pacific preventing reading land.
Unusual checking in double-deck Boeing Stratocruiser.
Unusual checkout on Super Constellation.
Examples of "glorious" life of airline pilots.
Poor judgment landing at Omaha.
Two missed fatal airline trips.
Details about the above experiences are in the chapter from another book.
Other sites related to pilots:
Navy pilot who was shot down during the U.S. invasion of Vietnam: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ddengler.htm.