‘No Second Guesses:’ Selfridge Pilots Share Story of Emergency Landing
By Tech. Sgt. Daniel Heaton, 127th Wing / Published August 11, 2017
Two thousand feet up and flying over the forests of Alpena County, Capt. Brett DeVries was running through his mental checklist and most of the options were bad. With his wingman flying just feet away and an Air Force maintenance specialist patched in via a radio set up next to a speaker phone, DeVries made the decision to land his badly-damaged A-10 Thunderbolt II on the runway at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center.
Despite the fact that his landing gear wouldn't come down. And the canopy had blown off the aircraft 25 minutes before. And his main radio stopped working. Along with the first back-up.
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