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A Pilot Instinct

A pilot was practicing some difficult manoeuvres in her Piper Cub one day in 1956. Suddenly she felt that something was wrong - not with the airplane but on the ground. She doubted this strange feeling, though, and pushed it from her mind and continued to practice. But the feeling kept returning, each time breaking her concentration.

 

Finally, she stopped practice and gave in to the feeling. She flew seventy miles off her intended course and noticed a car that had gone off a deserted country road. Without hesitating, she landed the small plane on the road and ran to the car. There, she pulled an unconscious woman from behind the wheel.

 

As she dragged the woman away from the car, the gas tank exploded and the car burst into flames. She laid the woman on the ground, only then realizing that the woman was her mother.

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