“Emergency Landing Gone Wrong: A Minnesota Highway to Red Lake Trouble” W Guest Darrin Smedsmo
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Sunday, December 14, 2025
You're flying along on a beautiful October day when suddenly you have a catastrophic engine failure. Your training kicks in, you pick out a place to land and you make a perfect emergency landing on a Minnesota state highway. Phew! That was scary! Little do you know your troubles are only beginning. You've landed on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. You didn't know you couldn't do that, even in an emergency. Well, that's what happened to Darrin Smedsmo, our guest on The World of Aviation on Sunday morning. They seized and impounded his plane. What!? To hear more, join Darrin and Al Malmberg at 10:05 on Am-1280-The Patriot.
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