This is an entry Tom made to himself, written on the last page of his address book. It describes a close call and near fatal crash. When I received this address book from Tom’s daughter, she had attached a post-it note to this page: Check out “Close Calls” I think it was “censored” by my mother.
Close Calls:
On Dec. the 16th while here at Lemoore Basic I just about didn’t get to celebrate my 20th birthday.
While coming in for landing, was just leveling off when a plane landed just over me. Had I continued my landing I would have run into the other plane and smeared us both over the runway. I gunned the engine and just cleared the other plane. Had it not been for the fact that I had my flaps most all the way down I would not have been able to clear the other ship. Lesson learned: Look out for the dumb bastards who are going to land on top of you.
T.E.C.
