{"id":6435,"date":"2021-07-26T14:47:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2021-07-28T15:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T15:30:03","slug":"near-miss-missoula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/2021\/07\/26\/near-miss-missoula\/","title":{"rendered":"Near Miss Missoula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/boeing727g.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/boeing727g-400x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/boeing727g-400x224.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/boeing727g-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/boeing727g-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/boeing727g-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/boeing727g.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOur late friend, Wayne, always embellished the attributes of his friends to other friends. It was a charming, though sometimes embarrassing, quality of his. But, I never knew him to embellish about himself or his experiences. He was not known for tall tales.<\/p>\n<p>A few years back he told me a fascinating story of an averted Montana air disaster. He wasn&#8217;t aware himself of its scope until the deathbed admission of a fellow pilot.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the old days of the 1960s, commercial airlines had three working in the cockpit &#8212; two pilots and a navigator. Wayne&#8217;s first job with Northwest Airlines, after his service in the Air Force, was as a young Boeing 727 navigator. As his story goes: During a blind, fogged-in landing approach to Missoula, Montana, Wayne noticed an anomaly with the flight path. I don&#8217;t know the details of how or why. But he told me that upon this discovery, he tapped the co-pilot on the shoulder and showed him his findings on a clip board. The co-pilot immediately pulled back on the yoke and throttled up into a steep, abrupt ascent. They made another go-around, then landed safely. Nothing more was said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/wayne2-gg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6454\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/wayne2-gg-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/wayne2-gg-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/wayne2-gg-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.spetz.com\/morningguyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/wayne2-gg.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>about this incident until the co-pilot&#8217;s confession on his deathbed, decades later.<\/p>\n<p>This is an unknown story and I thought that it should be mentioned as a tribute to Wayne. It turns out they were on a flight path that led into the side of a mountain. 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