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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* [[Green Lantern|Hal Jordan]] is a test pilot for the Air Force, and constantly crashes planes by taking them well beyond test parameters.

* Whenever we meet Spaceman Spiff in the ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' comics, he's crash landing on some planet.

** There's a [[Shout-Out]] to this in the card game ''[[Cosmic Encounter]]'', with the "Spiff" race, who have the power to "crash-land" when they lose a battle.

* For Jake Cutter, of ''[[Tales of the Gold Monkey]]'', crash landings were routine and accepted as such on Bora Gora.

* Richard Hammond of ''[[Top Gear]]'' has a... not-undeserved reputation for being accident-prone.

** [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Deanna Troi]] [[Never Live It Down|can't escape the fact]] that the [[Star Trek Generations|two]] [[Star Trek: Nemesis|times]] she's taken the helm, she's crashed an ''Enterprise.'' Though to be fair, the first was a crash landing after half the ship blew up that miraculously had minimal casualties and the second time, she was ordered to [[Ramming Always Works|ram the ship into the enemy.]]

* This was a running joke when referencing Uncle Albert in ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]''.

** Cobra troops often joke about their own Air Devil pilots. "What's the last thing to go through an Air Devil's head when he hits the ground? His engine."

** Also the notoriously clumsy and oafish Wildcard, who seems to break everything he comes in contact with by random chance ''except'' for his vehicle of choice. His filecard says that they put him in that thing because siccing him on the enemy personally is probably against the Geneva Convention.

* [[Batman]] in [[The DCAU]]. IIRC, the Batwing was destroyed in every appearance it made in JL/JLU. I'm not even sure the thing has landing gear.

** It does. It lands once in the very first JU episode, although [[Superman]] has to catch it and land it for Batman because a wing was shot off.