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ItsjustMe

(11,166 posts)
Sun Jul 25, 2021, 08:48 PM Jul 2021

The B-17 that Landed with No One On Board

On the early morning of November 23, 1944, a Royal Air Force antiaircraft unit stationed in the outskirts of Cortonburg, Belgium, spotted a 35,000-pound B-17 Flying Fortress flying towards them.

As the unscheduled aircraft continued to approach at high speed with its landing gears down, the base's personnel assumed it was an emergency landing.

Prepared for the worst, everyone watched as the B-17 uncontrollably landed in a nearby field. The soldiers waited for the crew to come out, but no one did.

Major John V. Crisp then came on board and found no traces of human presence.

The legend of the Ghost Bomber had begun.

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The B-17 that Landed with No One On Board (Original Post) ItsjustMe Jul 2021 OP
Did you type that holding a flashlight under your chin? marble falls Jul 2021 #1
LMAO!! Sogo Jul 2021 #2
Lolololol blm Jul 2021 #3
Perfect Bristlecone Jul 2021 #5
DUzy Jim G. Jul 2021 #10
I've seen some of the Dark Doc videos before. Pretty cool. captain queeg Jul 2021 #4
👀 fascinating. underpants Jul 2021 #6
For four years in a row DFW Jul 2021 #7
:-) CentralMass Jul 2021 #8
LOL pressbox69 Jul 2021 #12
The Doctor must have landed that plane. Ferrets are Cool Jul 2021 #9
Reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode, "The Arrival"..... lastlib Jul 2021 #11
I was thinking of that one. pressbox69 Jul 2021 #13

lastlib

(22,981 posts)
11. Reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode, "The Arrival".....
Sun Jul 25, 2021, 11:39 PM
Jul 2021

A DC-3 makes a normal landing at an airport, taxis to a normal stop--and no one gets off. The plane has no pilots, no crew, no passengers, no luggage. Quite an eerie story.

pressbox69

(2,252 posts)
13. I was thinking of that one.
Mon Jul 26, 2021, 12:43 AM
Jul 2021

Right now they are showing the one about the passenger jet that keeps breaking the time barrier The Odyssey of Flight 33. Prehistoric, then the 1939 Worlds Fair and then...
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