Your Move, Captain Sullenberger
November 22nd, 2009 admin
Hudson River water landings? That’s so yesterday, man. Somewhere in the Congo today there’s a pilot who, after a slight, um, miscalculation , crash landed his plane in a lava field. (more…)

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