87. Putting Down Over the Pacific - Listen - I Learned About

87. Putting Down Over the Pacific

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This week is an amazing tale of a pilot doing something most would never want to do: ferry an airplane across an ocean. Meet the pilot, who in an unfamiliar plane, was forced to put it down in the Pacific and hear what he learned from the experience.

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