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* Killboy from ''[[Warhammer 40000|Deff Skwadron]]''. A ''deliberate'' example, since his entire flying style is founded on [[Ramming Always Works]].
* Whenever we meet Spaceman Spiff in the ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' comics, he's crash landing on some planet.
** There's a [[Shout
** Also, Calvin rarely pilots his sled or wagon without flying off a ravine or crashing into a tree.
* Almost everyone in ''[[Sin City]]'' crashes his or her car, often due to [[Car Fu]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Lt. Frank Drebin of ''[[Police Squad!]]'' would park by smashing his car into something (trash cans, bicycles, other cars) at least [[Once Per Episode]].
* Although being a competent pilot, Boomer in the re-imagined ''[[
** Racetrack and her co-pilot Skulls fall into the bad-luck variety. There is nothing to show that [[Deadpan Snarker|Racetrack]] is a bad pilot. That doesn't change the fact she seems to attract errors, breakdowns, sabotages and attacks. Did the striking workers spike the fuel, casing a Raptor to spin out of control and crash into Colonial One? It'll be Racetrack's. Did chief mess up the repairs and caused a Raptor to crash on the landing deck? It's Racetrack's. Did a saboteur plant a bomb in a Raptor to kill Baltar's attorney? It's Racetrack's Raptor. Did the experimental jump drive cause a mis-jump? It was Racetrack and how she discovered New Caprica.
*** Skulls lampshades it in the [[Grand Finale]].
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** [[Subverted Trope|Hilariously subverted]] in "The Golden Goose" when Launchpad attempts to crash on purpose, [[Springtime for Hitler|only to land perfectly]] - Launchpad may crash all the time, but he's so good at wrecking his planes that he's an expert at crashing ''safely''.
** [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] in one episode where a Scrooge orders Launchpad to pilot a sabotaged blimp that's about to crash on its own. With Launchpad at the control, they still crash, but everybody survives with minor injuries.
** By the time of ''[[Darkwing Duck (Animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'', he seemed to have improved (or forced himself to get better because they only had one plane, as opposed to ''[[Duck Tales (Animation)|Duck Tales]]''' never ending supply). He'd crash occasionally, but that was usually due to getting shot down. There were still a lot of jokes and [[Shout
** Received [[Shout
* Ace in the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' cartoon and comic. Lampshaded in one instance when he says over the radio, "I'm going in!", to which Duke replies, "Every time you say that it gets expensive!"
** 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."
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== [[Real Life]] ==
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* Cpt. Hans Ulrich Lutz, Swiss aviator with the Crossair airline, worked as a pilot-in-command and a training pilot, even though his competences were somewhat slim: flying a Saab 340, he failed an upgrade exam to MD-80 eight consecutive times; he crashed an aircraft while sitting on the tarmac (he tried to retract the gear to show the student that it is impossible on the ground due to pressure sensors in the landing gear, but on this particular aircraft, these sensors were temporarily disabled and he simply retracted the gear, resulting in a Saab 340 write-off); once, he almost landed in Italy instead of Switzerland due to navigational errors; and once, he almost flew his aircraft into a lake, confusing it with a runway. Sadly, on 24 November 2001, Crossair Flight 3597 crashed into a hill on final approach due to his major error (he descended well below the minimum safety altitude in heavy snowfall and borderline visibility), claiming 24 of 33 people on board.
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