A Man and His Plane
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
A pilot, who is also the owner of a small plane, decides to take his plane out flying one afternoon. He observes that it is a sunny day with a light breeze...a perfect day for flying. Suddenly, the plane goes into a nasty nosedive towards earth. There is no engine power and the pilot can't see. When it is all over...the pilot walks away without a scratch and the plane is fine. What happened?
Answer
The pilot is the owner of a `small` plane...a paper airplane. He takes it flying, as he sees the plane go down he covers his eyes. The `light breeze` catches the plane before it hits. The pilot and airplane remain unharmed.
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dark-prince
May 02, 2002
| you state the pilot blacks out covering his eyes in no way means he BLACKS OUT |
krishnan   
Jul 21, 2003
| I thought that the pilot must have been dreaming. |
Rowsdower
Nov 30, 2003
| Remote control planes are fun stuff too, and the noise from their little motors can really cheese off your neighbors. although, if you black out and wreck it you're out a pretty penny. Fun teaser! |
username 
Jul 29, 2004
| well, blacks out does not mean covering his eyes. |
bigSWAFF_69_
Mar 25, 2005
| RIGHT.................................. |
mpspss 
Apr 03, 2005
| Funny.  
I thought he was in a movie.   |
darthforman
May 24, 2005
| He also could have been in a flight simulator (like the military uses to train pilots.) He could have crashed and the simulator cut off (there for can't see) and then he got out and walked away fine.
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stephiesd
Nov 04, 2005
| i actually though it was quite easy, but it was still a good teaser.
so much for dumb blonde. |
nkatha23
Nov 09, 2005
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hidentreasure
Dec 11, 2005
| I thought he was in a simulator.  |
sugarnspice4u7
Jan 04, 2006
| cute!  pps: |
musicmaker21113
Jan 09, 2006
| I thought it was a model airplane, too. Good one! |
luckythirteen
Feb 04, 2006
| very very very cute. i almost got it, sorta kinda |
benjam
Feb 09, 2006
| Good teaser!!! I thought he was a flight teacher and he was watching a student who crash landed the teachers plane, but I was wrong.  |
blackmarket69
Mar 08, 2006
| HI!!!! IM JOEY JOJO JR. SHABIDO |
Mellew
Mar 30, 2006
| it could have also been r/c |
spazzyjazzy93
Apr 07, 2006
| HAHAHAHAHA nice |
righteouschick2
Apr 08, 2006
| VERY cute although i did not get it
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elshawno
May 05, 2006
| I liked it i thought it was funny
but not that funny |
rrn0rrnrrnY
Sep 07, 2006
| I either read this one somewhere else or forgot to vote. Simple but cute. Thanks |
rrn0rrnrrnY
Sep 07, 2006
| So sorry for the first portion of the above comment. I picked this at "random" and as I went to go to comments it appeared as though I could vote, meaning I hadn't yer, but since I added the comment it now shows I did vote, so I DID NOT read this somewhere else. Again, good teaser. |
bladd
Oct 15, 2006
| Ok, I get it, but why? |
bgil7604
Feb 23, 2007
| I got it right, but it actually doesn't matter what type of "small" plane it is. It couldb be a model plane, a paper airplane, etc. Other than that, it was a very easy teaser.  |
musa_karolia
May 13, 2007
| I thought he was unloading his little single engined plane off his truck and covered his eyes. Only to find the plane had rolled onto the tarmac. Phew |
slicktrumpet
Jul 28, 2007
| Very clever!  |
likeproperty
Dec 16, 2007
| I thought it was fantastically easy,
but I did really really liked it.
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Deedee123
Jan 05, 2008
| good 1! |
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