Posted on 10/27/2015 4:31:03 PM PDT by artichokegrower
With the choice of ditching his Sea Harrier ZA176 in the Atlantic or trying an improbable emergency landing on cargo ship nearly 70 miles away, Sub-Lt Ian Watson choose the latter – and it actually worked.
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I guess that there are no GPS devices on the a/c and there was no ship travel plan of current and future GPS locations and the pilot had no idea of his fuel burn rate?
This happened in 1983, right?
“I guess that there are no GPS devices on the a/c and there was no ship travel plan of current and future GPS locations and the pilot had no idea of his fuel burn rate?”
No, not back then. Just his burn rate.
I remember that being on the news in the UK back then.
And it is a great landing if the plane can be used again.
..........yes it was 1983 or 32 years ago. Here’s the wiki link with lots of pictures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alraigo_incident
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