Amazing mid-air collision and landing 1940

[Mossie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp478Tgm5gg

[maxum96]

Ok, so as the video says, he used the engines of the lower plane while he flew from the top plane. How the hell did he control the engines in the other plane if the crew had bailed out?

[Steve Nelson]

I would assume that means he simply used the available power from the still running engines of the lower plane to stay aloft, and steered the conglomeration with the flight controls of his own aircraft.

SN

[JDK]

Details here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Brock ... _collision

[bdk]

A great successful use of his wits, only to be killed riding his bicycle a few years later. What a tragic story. Truth is often stranger than fiction.

[Tanker 336]

This type of crash happened more than once. This picture shows the same type of incident which occurred in 1941 with RCAF.

[garbs]

Did this only happen with Ansons?

[Tanker 336]

I'm guessing the reason for such mishaps were because Anson's were used in training Bomber Command pilots in the art of formation flying and some obvious got too close.