Amazing mid-air collision and landing 1940

Mossie · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:26 pm

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

maxum96 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:33 am

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 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:39 am

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 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:55 am

Details here:

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

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

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 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:37 pm

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

garbs · **Posted:** Thu Sep 13, 2012 8:31 am

Did this only happen with Ansons?

Tanker 336 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:19 pm

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.

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