Man uses airport runway to give girlfriend a driving lesson
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
A Philippine plane with 80 passengers aboard narrowly avoided a crash - after a man teaching his girlfriend to drive sped across the runway as the aircraft landed.
The Cebu Pacific plane briefly touched down at Legazpi airport in the central Philippines on Saturday, but took off again as the van being driven by the couple crossed the runway.
'That van could have turned us into a fireball had I not successfully aborted landing,' said pilot Christopher Nowioki.
According to the Philippine Star newspaper, the culprit was actually the son of the airport manager.
It's thought that he may have thought all the flights to the airport were completed for the day, and decided to use the runway to give his girlfriend a driving lesson. However, a recent increase in the number of scheduled flights, combined with poor visibility, caught him out.
His father, Frisco Sto. Domingo, has now been sacked, the Philippine Star reports.
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