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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe 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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DFW
(54,051 posts)Air Force One took off and landed with no president on board.
Good one.
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(22,981 posts)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.
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(2,252 posts)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...