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  • Pilot survived fall from pitching plane (Aggie)

    07/31/2005 1:33:11 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 23 replies · 1,553+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | July 31, 2005 | CHRIS VAUGHN
    FORT WORTH - On a bone-chilling, miserably windy day in 1952, Capt. Fred C. Seals Jr. fell out of his airplane. Right out the side of the C-46 Commando. Four hundred feet above the snow-covered ground in the middle of the Korean War. Improbably, Seals lived to tell the tale. The story has been retold on Ripley's Believe It or Not, and to this day, old men stop him and ask if it is true. Seals lived because he fell right back into the plane. "There's many a time I've thought, 'Why in the Sam Hill am I here?' "...