March 20, 2011 at 5:00 pm

Picture of the Day: A Very Close Call

by twistedsifter

picture of the day Picture of the Day: A Very Close Call

A VERY CLOSE CALL

 

plane hits truck people jumping out of way Picture of the Day: 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

 

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