88 grand final day was in a Cessna 210 force landing (crash) at Shepparton en route from Sydney to Melbourne (all the commercial airlines were booked out on the way down). It’s amazing what you can do in autopilot when you’re in shock. We hired a wagon to get us to the game (pilot had to stay behind of course). Got there despite the injury list; one of us having concussion (although not knocked out), the bloke next to me had broken his ribs, i had torn the muscles in my back. The other two occupants were fine.
It wasn’t all bad though, if my memory serves me correctly, didn’t we kick the first point?
Then, flying back on Ansett, they’d left some oil on the air conditioning unit so as we were taking off the cabin began to fill with smoke.
Next GF we’re in I’m taking the tram!