Shawn - agree about the switch in the Huey, snagged it with the cuff of a flying glove many times, but fortunately not enough to lift it out of its gate.
But one rather senior officer, flying leader in Vietnam, made the other formation members wonder what was going on when his aircraft suddenly left the formation vertically upwards. They tried to follow him up, but suddenly he whistled back vertically down through the pack, with pieces of molten turbine blade spitting out the back.
His explanation was that a clipboard he picked up had a pencil attached to it with string, and the string pulled the switch into manual fuel. Absolute full throttle for a short time, then engine failure shortly thereafter.
The (very junior) copilot had a totally different version of events - the senior officer was looking at the switch with a look of puzzlement, then reached over and switched it through, just to see what would happen. The copilot's version never saw the light of day, and the end result was that all clipboards had to be attached to the map pocket with string short enough that it couldn't reach the manual fuel switch!!
