How do you put a Harrier on a cargo ship?

[FastCargo]

 

Maybe not quite this way...

 

While I was looking through YouTube for a Harrier video to play for my son, I came across something called 'The Alraigo Incident'.

 

I had never heard about this before...but thought it was interesting enough to post on here.

 

 

Watson saw that some cargo containers formed essentially a deck, one similar to a landing pad he had used during training. “Well, I thought, in for a penny, in for a pound, and I landed the airplane on the containers.”

Full story here: The Alraigo Incident

 

And video from the news reports at the time:

 

 

FC

[dast24]

man, this guy had balls to land there :-D

[MigBuster]

Good find - had no idea this had happened

[Skyviper]

If you listen carefully you can hear his brass balls clinging.