Name: Pilot Stories: Close Calls | 727 With Afterburners
Uploaded: 2025-04-09
Duration: 24 min 21 s
Description: A Fedex 727 Pilot recounts the time the Tower thought he had afterburners.

Listen in as pilots share firsthand accounts of their close calls in the cockpit.

A Fedex 727 Pilot recounts the time the Tower thought he had afterburners.

727 With Afterburners

A pilot shares the sad story of the fatal crash that took the life of his friend when the rotor wash of a helicopter caused the plane they were landing to flip.

Rotorwash Crash in Puerto Rico

A bird hit the canopy, shattering it and rendering the pilot almost blind.

Incredible Bird Strike

How much ice can a plane build up and still fly? You don't want to know.

Three Inches of Ice

The pilot passes out from carbon monoxide and wakes to find the plane crash-landed—and he survived!

Mooney Miracle

After the engine stops, Cameron Morrison has to land his plane on the highway—with his wife and baby on board!

Engine Out Highway Landing

A female pilot lands in the Middle East and has a close call with a ground worker who has a very strange request.

Can I See Your Toes?

A ferry pilot talks about flying through thunderstorms to deliver the plane across Africa.