Wheels up, hard stick landing. Everyone said it couldn't be
done, including the Flight Manual's and Tech Orders... pilot Capt Rich Biley proved'm
wrong on 22 Feb 1991! He brought 181 in at
KKMC FOL where
the CLSS team stripped it of parts, some send to
KFIA MOB
for use on other birds, and then buried it in the desert.
Capt Biley was unhurt during the crash. We later worked
together in 1995 at Osan AB, Korea where he was
assigned to the 25th FS, and I was the Superintendent of the 51st FW Maintenance
Operations Center.
A-10 79-181's final fate: buried in the Saudi desert beside
OA-10A 77-0197
