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Maverick fighter's near miss with goose on the runway

Maverick fighter's near miss with goose one the runway

This is what happens when you’ve got a Maverick in the cockpit and a goose on the runway.

The Free Libyan Airforce doesn’t have many MiG fighters and, we assume, it boasts a commensurately small number of ground crew.

They almost had an even smaller fleet and ground crew after this stunt though.

A man was forced to leap for his life after aimlessly wandering onto a runway just as the jet pilot was swooping in for a perilously low fly by.

Realising at the last minute that a MiG-23 was descending on him at incredible speed the man leaped to the side as the plane thundered past.

In less than a second he sees or hears the plane, and both man and jet appear airborne as the dangerous stunt somehow concludes without any casualties.