Murdoc points to a hilarious list of mostly-real pictures of aircraft experiencing technical difficulties.

One of my favorite moments -- that I don't see on this list -- is from 2003 when Lockheed dropped the NOAA-N Prime spacecraft because one of the techs unbolted it from its base without telling anyone. Here's a picture of the $100+ million satellite laying on the floor; there must be video somewhere also, because spacecraft moves are always recorded in case something like this happens.

(HT: Roger Cadenhead for the link to the images.)

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Murdoc said:

You're right, that was funny in a "Boy, I'm glad that wasn't ME who did that" way.

Thanks for the link!

Time to clean the fingerprints off the wrench.

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