B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for July 12, 2023

Never buy wings made in China

Maybe shouldn’t have left the wings out in the sun to dry out.

“Not enough surface area, not enough flying power, too weak a set of materials. Oh, and a moron at the controls.”

Yes FACEPLANT, A 5 on the Wiley Coyote scale, 2 points deducted for having wings !

The NTSB has already come to a conclusion. The accident came about from failure of the “nut” that holds the wings. ;-)

Don’t count your flights until you’ve landed (successfully).

Until “crack” and “snap” he looks so gracefull :-D

Flight of the Dodo

NTSB: Government bureaucracy, the closest thing to eternal life on the planet.

Icarus, the early days.

First two frames – The thrill of victory

Last two frames – The agony of defeat

Pilot error…they should have picked a different pilot…

Early in the morning sunlight

Soaring on the wings of dawn

Here I’ll live and die with my wings in the sky

And I won’t come down no more

Well, maybe I will

- K Livgren

Just out of the frame in the last panel is another hole with a cayote in it….

We are not in Kitty Hawk……Toto

It shouldn’t take long to solve this puzzle :)

Simple answer, pilot error. Appears the pilot failed to check the craft for structural issues prior to flight. Should have done a walk around.

Like everything else. Pilot error. …sigh

“NTSB”? National trombone shipping box"?

That had to hurt!

Good launch. Really bad landing.

Same man’s last flight…

Look around, you may see remains of the Roadrunner….meep meep

is that Neanderthal Traffic Safety Board?

Near the end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eooFXQBKRc

The government is all pervasive…

I didn’t know that the NTSB had been in existence that long.

B1……Rotate.

I’ve learned the lingo from watching May Day: Air Disasters

A young man, still in his late 20’s, survived 2 aircraft crashes in WWII and two others as a pilot for Pan Am. On June 18, 1947, he got a seat on the Clipper Eclipse in Karachi, Pakistan (then in India), for a flight to Istanbul with the designation Pan Am Flight 121. Five hours into the flight, the number one engine developed a fault and was shut down. The plane was able to fly on three engines. However, they began to overheat, and the pilot descended to a lower altitude to allow the engines to cool. A second engine caught fire, and fire suppressant measures failed to extinguish it. While the pilot attempted to land the plane, he went to the cabin to calm the passengers. He was certain at the time that he was going to die, as the engine fell from the wing, exposing fuel lines, causing the fire to spread. The plane descended rapidly. As he unbuckled himself from a seat to calm a woman, it crashed in the Syrian Desert. Though he had two broken ribs, he began to evacuate passengers from the burning plane with the other crew. He had to force the broken seatbelt of the Maharani of Phaltan open so that she could leave the plane. He repeatedly re-entered the plane to pull out more passengers; some were burning and he used pillows to extinguish the flames. The wind turned, causing the fire to engulf the plane, and he was unable to make any further trips. He took charge in the aftermath, and, after a group of local tribesmen proved to be of no help, he formed two teams to search for civilization. The team he led trekked four miles across the desert to the town of Mayadin, where he telephoned the emergency landing strip at Deir ez-Zor, some 38 miles (61 km) away. In response, the Syrian Army dispatched planes with medical teams to the crash site. He returned to the site to assist the survivors. Fourteen people died in the crash; eleven passengers needed hospital treatment, eight were unharmed. The man’s name was Eugene Wesley Roddenberry. Yes, that Gene Roddenberry.

Man’s first crash too.

Inadequate materials. The bane of every inventor.

lol