A-10 pilot manages to ‘belly land’ his plane after gun malfunctions, canopy blows off, and landing gear fails
After a routine training run in Alpena County, Michigan in late July, US Air National Guard Capt. Brett DeVries survived the perfect storm of malfunctions to safely land his A-10 Thunderbolt II on its belly without the benefit of landing gear. During a training exercise where A-10 pilots practice dropping inert bombs and ripping the planes’ massive gun, […]







