[ThanhPhero]

I flew in the back end of C-47s in 1968. One I was on lost power to the right engine on takeoff from Da Nang. The tower ordered the captain to turn right around and land. The captain said no he was going home. We went straight west a short hop to the mountains where he turned south, cut off the other engine and we glided on the updrafts from the north-south ridgelines 200 kilometers or so back to base at Pleiku. Captain got grounded for a month and toasted in the O-club. The old DC-3 was pretty much a glider with motors anyway.

[Rca2000]

There IS a MOVIE about this incident, which was made in 1995. I recorded it when it was new, and still remember it.

Falling from the sky.