The pilot of an Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt helped guide a pair of pilots in a Piper light twin to a safe landing after their radios and instruments failed in the clouds over Germany, Stars & Stripes reported on Tuesday. Twenty minutes after taking off from The Netherlands on Nov. 15, an electrical wire in the Piper Chieftain broke. Pilot Naim Fazlija and co-pilot Artan Berisha, who had five passengers on board heading for Switzerland, used a handheld radio to send a Mayday to German air traffic controllers. Minutes later, controllers sent help: a U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt piloted by Maj. Peter Olson. "It just pops out of the clouds and I was like, 'Wow, incredible,'" Berisha told Stars & Stripes.
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