Thomas Fitzpatrick

Thomas Fitzpatrick

In 1956, for a bet, while drunk, American pilot Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn't believe he had done it the first time.

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