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Air Force A-10 pilot earns prestigious award for pulling off an 'extraordinary' belly landing with no cockpit canopy and damaged landing gear
A gun failure caused an explosion that sent his cockpit canopy flying as he tore through the air at 400 mph. It also wrecked part of the landing gear.
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