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A-10A
Model Year
1979
Serial No.
790181
Prod No.
445
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Crashed Landing on base 22/02/91 CPT Rich Biley unhurt, Destroyed<div><span style="font-family: " open="" sans",="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 14.3px;="" text-align:="" center;"="">Wheels up, hard stick landing after being hit by a SAM. 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 79-0181 in at King Khalid Military City (KKMC), Forward Operating Location (FOL) 1 where the CLSS team stripped it of parts, some send to King Fahd International Airport (KFIA), Main Operating Base (MOB) for use on other birds, and then buried it in the desert. Capt Biley was unhurt during the crash.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: " open="" sans",="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 14.3px;="" text-align:="" center;"=""><span style="color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">Event No.: F-29</span></span></div>
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