A few days ago on the island of Dune in the Heligoland archipelago, a small island off the coast of Northern Germany, a plane almost landed on a common sunbather.
Pilot Juergen Drucker, 52, was flying his Piper PA-28-181 Archer II as he approached the airport on the dunes according to HuffingtonPost. He misjudged his landing zone and came within inches of landing on a civilian at the beach but managed to stay aloft long enough to avoid a catastrophe.
The plane slammed into the fence at the edge of the runway and somehow managed to land safely – no one was hurt.
“It was me that was flying and I am really sorry,” said Drucker, “I have to say, as the pictures show, that it wasn’t one of my greatest achievements in the cockpit.” via GrindTV.
Uwe Kaiser, another beachgoer, said that most people would never pick that stretch of beach to sunbathe simply because it is so close to the airstrip. As for the man nearly struck by the plane, that is something he had to learn the hard way.