Danny Deger wrote:
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What is your favorite "lost" story?

Danny Deger


I won't say where this happened or when in case any of the offending
crew is still married I will say it was back in the day when we could
get away with pictures of naked women under the plexiglass on the
plotter table of HC-130 aircraft. I was sitting in the left scanner seat
listening to the flight deck discussing the latest copy of Hustler. We
were heading in the general direction of a place where the locals would
not be happy to see us. Pilot asked nav where we were. Nav replied "we
should just be passing a large village near a river at 9 o'clock." Pilot
looked and couldn't see it. I stated that we had passed a small village
about 10 minutes before, but there was no river. Nav and pilot agreed
that must be it and went back to the discussion at hand. I decided I
didn't want to hear anymore and a bunk had just become unoccupied so I
crawled in. Not much later things got noisy as we did a very sharp 180.

I never did ask how far we had been off course It never was
discussed when we got back to the states.]

The running gag in that unit was you could tell how confident the nav
was by the width of the lines on his charts.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired