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Erlkönig: flying-humour.shtmlone quick-thinking pilot... A friend of mine, who has a quick wit, owns a Cherokee 180. One day he was told by the tower to hold short of the runway in a taxiway while a DC-8 landed. The DC-8 landed, rolled out, performed a 180 and taxied back past my friend. One of the DC-8 crew said, "What a cute little plane, did you make it yourself?" My friend replied, "I made it out of DC-8 parts. Another landing like that and I'll have parts enough for another one." ...and one not-so-quick-thinking Fire Marshall: I turned on the 10 O'clock channel 9 news here in LA recently, and saw where a single engine plane (identified as Aero Commander) went down short of the Burbank airport. Both people on board survived. The pilot was lucid as he was being cut out of the wreckage and said he ran out of fuel over Eagle Rock and was trying to make Burbank. Remarking about the lack of fire, the Fire Marshall in charge of the rescue said, "They are just lucky there was no fuel on board." |