March 20, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Picture of the Day: A Very Close Call
A VERY CLOSE CALL
Photograph by ROBERT W. MADDEN / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Plane Hits Truck, Guatemala, 1976: “Buffeted by crosswinds, a rescue plane crashes into a truck, while trying to land on a mountain highway near Sanarate. Miraculously no one suffered serious injury.”
—From “Earthquake in Guatemala,” June 1976, National Geographic magazine
National Geographic via Reddit
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