# Looking for a book **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-book/651406 "2013-02-26T02:35:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-book/651406/1 "2013-02-26T02:35:25Z")
A light plane is coming in for a landing at an airport (in Florida?), followed by an airliner. Unfortunately, the light plane is a rare variety, and neither the ATC nor the airliner’s pilot realise how slow its landing speed is - with the result that it gets impaled on the airliner’s nose wheel. So the airliner has to fly around in circles while people try to figure out how to disconnect the light plane (whose pilot, IIRC, is still alive) so the airliner can land… Read this one in the '80s, I think, or possibly the '90s.