donwon Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 (edited) I know this is off topic but... Dan I found a scrap of info on Google about that B-25 near where I live and watched as it was brought to the shore. "Rossman, now 81 years old, was involved in five B-25 crashes and emergency landings during World War II. The first one, on June 6, 1944 (D-Day in Europe), was in South Carolina during a flight practicing single engine procedures. "The instructor pilot decided that we should also practice combat type low-level flying," explains Rossman. "Flying over Lake Greenwood, South Carolina, we got too low and the props touched the water. We had to ditch the airplane and it took 24 stitches to close the rip in my chin when the seat belt opened." Rossman was allowed to continue with his training after a reprimand and a fine. He signed an I.O.U. for the lost B-25 and kept flying." Edited December 11, 2009 by donwon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donwon Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1/101-200/walk125_B-25/walk125.htm This site has another story on the crash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donwon Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 http://www.meredithprice.com/articles/rossman.html This person I assume was flying the plane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Wilson Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Thanks for the links Some pretty good history there, especially Rossers personal history, someone must have been looking out for that guy and his crew - 6 crashes of one type or another:eek: and hes still here, man that is one lucky guy. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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