Luckiest Pilot alive?

[Richard Dangle]

Do not forget this guy:https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/blog/th...ible-alkemade/

FS Alkemade's story is told as the opening condensed article in a Readers Digest commemorative edition titled "The Best of 21 Years" and published in the UK in 1960. I know this because I read it (and every other story in the book) when I was about 7 or 8 years old. It was the very first story to inspire my interest in the RAF and I remember it to this day. Not least because when my dad passed away, I found the book in his bookshelf...and I have it with me now.

As the article describes he was lucky thrice. To survive the fall, to escape hypothermia, and to avoid being shot as a spy!

Possibly a bit contentious, but I'd have to add the Shoreham Hunter guy to this list...no idea how he walked away from that.