I can picture Jesse Ventura sitting in the cabin, chewing tobacco, and getting geared up to Little Richard whilst adjusting his bloodlust-hardon.

Pretty cool, even if the ending was not at all a surprise.
Also, needs a Libya tag.

Considering there's a video of one of these having its wings fall off in flight, I'm getting the impression these things either didn't age well or were made from flattened out Coke cans.

without question, this requires philip glass' sonic handiwork

JATO tag

Needs more rockets.

sadly, pilot error

This was built specifically for a second attempt at the rescue of hostages in Iran during the late 70's. The plan was to land the 130, with rescue teams on board, in a 350 yard long soccer stadium.

As you can see, the first landing works. However, on the second approach, the pilots fired the forward JABRs while still airborne, causing the aircraft to lose all lift, and crash over 30' to the runway.

Needless to say, they scrapped the project, and the hostages were released less than a year later.

It's the first boss from Metal Slug 2.