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A-10 Thunderbolt II
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A-10 Thunderbolt II
"Warthog" |
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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, where the CLSS team stripped it of parts, some send to KFIA 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.
181's final fate: buried in the Saudi desert beside 197
