Ron Wagner :
They sure do , and I get it once . It was pretty shivery , too .
BLYTHEVILLE AFB CIRCA 1978
I was fly a VIP jet transport from Andrews Air Force Base in Washington , to Blytheville Air Force Base , Arkansas to foot up someone , probably a fellow member of Congress . It was night and there was a solid cloud overcast with a roof at about 3000 metrical foot .
We were sing to and being vectored by approach shot control condition and inside the clouds we saw nothing but sinister — in those conditions , cockpit window look like they ’ve been painted black .
Suddenly , we broke out of the cloud bag . Below them , it was crystal exculpated and we could see lights for many miles , including the runway ignitor and rotating beacon on the base . We report to approach control that we had the airdrome in pile , we were cleared for a optic approach , and we turned toward the runway .
Just as dead as the visible radiation had appeared , everything went pitch-dark again .
When the windows decease pitch-black again , we assumed we ’d fly back into a cloud , so we call off approach to tell them we ’d lost the ocular and want to continue vectors .
No response .
We then check over our position on our navigational instruments but noticed they had red flagstone on them , which meant that the primer coat sign had been lost .
We called again . No reply .
We then notice our transponder was n’t wink anymore , which meant we were n’t being painted by microwave radar .
We start out to muse go up and switching back to our last en path relative frequency but first we call again . No reply .
Just as I was about to vary frequency , a very frantic comptroller called us .
They ’d just had a big earthquake , which knocked out all power . It had taken a couple of minutes to get running on their emergency backup , but he now had his radio working .
He asked us to revolve visually on our own while they got things up and running again . That was the scary part because we saw nothing but sinister .
We could only trust there was n’t a tall antenna out there — now unlighted due to the power outage . We called him and he verified he did n’t have his radar back yet , but he knew the area well and we were in the clear at our altitude . We continued to orbit — check nothing else in the whole man but the violent glowing from our escape instruments .
at long last the runway lights came back on . The restrainer then told us to continue to orbit while they post some trucks down the track to check for cracks .
A few minutes afterwards we were say the rails was fine , so we at long last went in visually and landed .
So , yes , earthquakes can perfectly affect pilots !
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