Ah yes, if only our airfields were surrounded by farmers' fields.....NEVERTHELESS, it is possible to land on a ROOF and survive. I can remember one aircraft perched nicely on a hangar roof.
Once at Wycombe Air Park they accused the light aircraft that had landed on a house quite near the airfield of being a glider tug, thinking that the telephone wire that had served to arrest the arrival was a towrope. Apparently the pilot had a syndrome traced to sunlight flickering through the prop, and passed out at the critical moment. Very very little damage to either house or aircraft, amazing.
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