[Clara Lou]

Clipping trees with a DC-10—that’s cutting it reeeaally close.

[anymouse]

Reminds me of this great movie.

While on a bombing run, one of the engines on Al's Catalina water bomber catches fire. In desperation, Pete makes a dangerously steep dive to extinguish it with slurry. He saves Al, but his own A-26 bomber flies so low it hits one of the burning trees, catches fire and explodes.

At least these pilots survived this close call.

[Restore]

Yep, this is the first time I’ve heard of a DC-10 hitting trees... and the crew living to talk about it.

[Erasmus]

Those ol’ DC-10’s are pretty sturdy birds.

As long as the ground crew screwed the engines on tight enough.