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How a B-17 Bomber Landed Without A pilot

The "Ghost Pilot" of Good Friday. It was the afternoon of Good Friday, April 7, 1944, and the skies over Corsica, a rugged French island in the Mediterranean, were unusually clear. At a small Allied airbase, mechanics looked up, confused, as a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber came limping in for a landing. That wasn’t so strange—damaged bombers often returned with pieces missing. But this one was… silent. No radio contact. No signal. Even stranger, the bomber landed perfectly—wheels down, straight down the runway—and just rolled to a gentle stop. Ground crews rushed out, expecting wounded or unconscious crew. But when they opened the hatch, they were met with something chilling: The entire plane was completely empty. Not a soul aboard. No pilot, no co-pilot, no bombardier. Just flak-damaged walls, half-eaten rations, and personal belongings… but no sign of the crew. The strangest part? The engines were off. The controls showed signs of being manually flown. Yet it had landed as if guided by a steady, practiced hand. Even weirder: One mechanic later said he swore he saw a figure in the cockpit as it came in—wearing a bomber jacket and cap—before vanishing as soon as the wheels touched down. Investigations later revealed that the B-17 had taken part in a bombing raid over Germany but had been severely damaged and abandoned mid-air. The crew had bailed out over the Alps, thinking the plane wouldn’t make it. And yet… it flew itself, hundreds of miles, over mountains and open sea, and landed gently on an Allied airstrip. Soldiers dubbed it the “Ghost Bomber of Corsica.” Some called it a miracle—Good Friday divine intervention. Others believed a member of the crew had stayed behind, possibly perished in the cockpit, and guided the plane home one last time. But no body was ever found. Even the most skeptical mechanics couldn’t explain how the plane landed so cleanly without a pilot. It was logged in the official records, but no one could make sense of it. To this day, it's one of the most unexplainable events of WWII aviation. A phantom flight. A Good Friday ghost story. Something out of this world. Thanks for watching, subscribe for more. #army #polish #porland #worldwar2 #worldwar1 #soldier #bear #history #funfacts #funfact #warstories #ai #aistory #aistorytelling #aistories thanks for watching Führers. disclaimer: none of the images on the video portraits an accurate picture of soldiers involve but the audio does tell a real story.