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Originally Posted by KNS
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My dad was THE first pilot to land a C-124 in Pago Pago. He had a heavy load, and stopped with just a few feet remaining.
He too had a story of landing at San Antonio it those same conditions in a C-47. He said he had a very high ranking civilian passenger that insisted they land because he had an important meeting. He said as they touched down they could only see the next landing light, and thought they were about to run off the end. Then another light, and another. The got it all shut down, and the follow me truck took over an hour to find them, and it ran into the tail section and damaged it so that it was not safe to taxi it. The second ground crew took and hour to come find them, and take them to the control tower.
The civilian passenger told my dad he did not know they had landed until he heard the engines slowing down.
