A-10 pilot reveals what it was like trying to land an attack aircraft that was literally falling apart around her
Story by rpickrell@businessinsider.com (Ryan Pickrell) • Yesterday 3:50 PM
In spring 2020, Capt. Taylor Bye's A-10 attack aircraft started falling apart on a training flight.
She had to land with no cockpit canopy, panels falling off, and landing gear up.
Bye spoke to Insider about the experience and what it was like getting back in the air afterwards.
The last thing any pilot wants to see is their plane falling apart while they are trying to fly it, but that was the nightmare scenario US Air Force A-10 attack aircraft pilot Capt. Taylor "Petrie" Bye found herself in.
On April 7, 2020, a routine training flight suddenly was anything but when the 30 mm GAU-8/A Avenger cannon on Bye's A-10C Thunderbolt II malfunctioned during a gun run at Grand Bay Range at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia.
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