What is the most amazing/crazy thing you've seen from an airplane?

Three Marine Corps fighter jets taking off from the airstrip at Camp Pendleton who decided to scare the guys in the Cessna. The air space is controlled and we were at our designated altitude to avoid conflict with the Marine Corps aviation. One jet went just over us, another just below us and the third right behind us simultaneously. Must have been a big laugh for the cowboys flying the jets, but it scared the hell out us. Crazy for sure. One misstep and there would have been a number of dead bodies in the Pacific Ocean, and I would not be writing this.

Another incident in the same aircraft happened over Los Angeles. Air traffic control must have been asleep. We were flying straight and level from south to north over Los Angeles. We had radioed our position, course, altitude and air speed to Los Angeles traffic control. They told us that they had us on their radar and to continue as we were. Everything was calm with good visibility when all of a sudden the pilot, who was my boss, cussed and pushed the controls forward and we dived just as a passenger jet passed directly in front of us. We were close enough to see passengers in the windows who did not seen that pleased to see us that close. Except for the alertness and quick thinking of our pilot, there would have been a big news story that night and a lot of debris in a residential area of Los Angeles.

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