A crowd of about 1,000 had gathered to watch the final landing of a military plane which was about to be decommissioned after many years of service. All appeared to be going smoothly as the Transall C-160 approached the Ballenstedt airfield in Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. However the pilot suddenly reported that he could not see the start of the runway from his cockpit – and came down on a side road where many of the spotters were standing. As some fled screaming in terror, the braver or more foolhardy stood their ground, keeping their cameras trained on the 31-ton aircraft to catch every second of the action. And two of them standing beside a fence post came within inches of being crushed under its wheels.The plane then bounced up in the air, the pilot regained control and landed it safely.(via facenfacts.com)
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