The Polar Aviation Wake
In the 1980s, the Nenech Autonomous District, Amderm airport, motel, zero visibility. In a cockpit, a drunk pilot sits his plane across the runway.
I would not fly in this weather at all. To whom I tell about this, they do not believe. Why not believe here? An-2 aircraft, in the face of the wind, can go down without running. The wind was over the strip, it was over and down, and otherwise it would have swallowed. For the report of the forces no longer remained, right in the cabin and turned off.
The head of flight on his ERPeshka wears the strip from end to end, can not find the plane, although it is not a needle in a pile of seam.
It had already come to report to the management about the emergency, as side-sighted saw the "maize" meters twenty from the strip.
The next day there were flights. They ask this pilot how, they say, he arrived to life such that he sat behind the shuttle drunk.
And he says:
- And I am sober and I do not fly, I am afraid to fly sober on An-2...