In 1967, two American F4 Ghost fighter jets took off from the US military base in Thailand to fly to northern Vietnam for a bombing mission, and no one expected that such an ordinary-looking combat mission would give birth to a miracle in the history of air combat.
The pilots of these two US fighters were Captain Pado (long aircraft) and Captain Oman (wingman), who were hit by anti-aircraft fire from the North Vietnamese army while on a mission to bomb Hanoi, and although Pado's long plane was damaged, it was less damaged and was able to fly normally, but Oman's wingman was hit by the fuel tank, the fuel was constantly pouring out, and the fuel meter had issued an alarm, and the situation was very critical.
According to the original plan, the two planes will fly to Laos for aerial refueling after the bombing mission to ensure that the aircraft has enough fuel to return, but Oman's aircraft fuel tank leaked, not only can not fly to Laos for refueling, even the North Vietnamese territory can not fly out, if Oman chooses to parachute, then it will definitely be caught by the North Vietnamese ground forces, and then it will face a long career of iron windows.
At this time, Pardo's tumultuous operation came, he asked Aman to open the parachute, and then piloted his plane close to the rear of the wingman, trying to insert the nose into the parachute storage cabin at the tail of the wingman, so that he could continue to fly with the wingman, but this action was too difficult, and Pardo tried several times without success.
Seeing that the fuel tank was leaking more and more, Pardo had another plan, he let Aman put down the tail hook of the wingman, and he flew to the bottom of the wingman's rear, and used the cockpit glass frame to resist the heavy tail hook of the wingman, so that he could also drag the wingman to continue flying, but the danger of doing so was more than the previous method, and if he was not careful, the tail hook of the wingman could break the glass, penetrate the cockpit and kill Pardo himself, but for the safety of his comrades, Pardo still did so, and just like that, the two planes maintained such a strange posture and flew out of north Vietnam. Then parachute to escape, and finally successfully by the friendly helicopter to leave, Pardo's operation is really bold.
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