Plane Facts

In 2006, a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover the smell by lighting matches, causing an emergency landing and an FBI investigation.

In 1956, for a bet whilst drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.

Houdini was the first man to fly a plane solo in Australia.

In 2003, a Boeing 727-223 was stolen from an airport in Angola. Despite a worldwide search, it still has not been found.

A German photographer actually snapped a picture of a plane being struck by lightning inside a rainbow.

A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

A WW2 observation pilot, bored of not being in combat, decided to strap 6 bazookas to his plane. He destroyed several enemy tanks and vehicles. His name was Lt. Col. Charles Carpenter, aka Bazooka Charlie / The Mad Major.

There's a pizza company in Alaska called 'Airport Pizza' that delivers by plane to remote villages. Based in Nome, they fly pizzas to communities with no road access, with delivery sometimes included for bulk orders to nearby villages.

Clint Eastwood was in a plane that crashed into the sea in 1951. He and the pilot escaped the sinking aircraft and swam nearly 3 miles through frigid waters to reach the California coast.