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#154586 - 11/07/08 08:28 PM Blind pilot guided to land by RAF
Am_Fear_Liath_Mor Offline
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Registered: 08/03/07
Posts: 3078

Cessna Pilot, Jim O'Neill, aged 65 has a stroke and becomes blind and he needs to land his aeroplane!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/7715345.stm


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#154587 - 11/07/08 08:39 PM Re: Blind pilot guided to land by RAF [Re: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor]
benjammin Offline
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Registered: 02/06/04
Posts: 4020
Loc: Anchorage AK
LOL, I can imagine the ATCs acting something like the Buddy Hackett/Mickey Rooney landing sequence from "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".

I wonder if one of them ended up hanging out the side of the tower wrapped in and dangling from a mic cord.
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#154635 - 11/08/08 04:17 AM Re: Blind pilot guided to land by RAF [Re: benjammin]
OldBaldGuy Offline
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Registered: 09/30/01
Posts: 5695
Loc: Former AFB in CA, recouping fr...
Somehow I have a vision of Andy Griffith spitting into the back of a radio, whacking it, then saying into the mic "Hellloooo"...
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#154697 - 11/09/08 04:35 AM Re: Blind pilot guided to land by RAF [Re: OldBaldGuy]
Susan Offline
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Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
My mother was driving in Las Vegas when she had some sort of short-term stroke. She said it was like all the lights went out. She knew she was in the right lane, so she just slowed and gradually pulled to the side until she touched the curb. Just as she came to a stop, the lights came on again, and she went home and called her doctor. Scary.

Sue

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