A Miraculous Emergency Landing at Merrill Field Airport 🛩 Air Disasters | Smithsonian

Anchorage Airport police question a pilot who had just made a daring emergency landing with his DC-3-minus its right engine. Somehow, he'd succeeded in maximizing the glide of the aircraft, to perform an unlikely 100 miles an hour runway landing-with the landing gear up.
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[@KuostA]

this was actually incredible airmanship

[@atiku_7776]

The Dakota DC 3 have rare incidents Like this. A Very Narrow escape landing 👍

[@DawudAdhanHossain]

That police car is so nice

[@MaybeLiteralJesus]

omg that slide at 3:27 ish

[@hardv8]

Brilliant landing considering.

[@agimibraimi96]

I was doing my O&Ps when this happened. The DME walks in and said a plane just had and emergency landing outside.

[@Rmm1722]

Great work

[@AncestorEmpireGaming]

Bait and switch

[@storytimewithunclekumaran5004]

How did the landing gear not go down.. they have a manual emergency gravity deployment if need be ??

[@stejer211]

Maybe watch the video?

[@christophercarrera2005]

This is not Air Crash Investigation

[@MaybeLiteralJesus]

mhm? no shit

[@mons-fe9fw]

This is air disaster...

[@mons-fe9fw]

@@MaybeLiteralJesusthis is air disaster

[@cosminopincaru9629]

third comment