Veteran Australian pilot Ben Buckley was at the controls of a 1910 plane built by John Duigan, which made the first powered flight when he had an unwelcome close encounter with the manure.
He’d taken off okay from the Victorian town of Ballarat, but veered off the runway when he landed – straight into a 20 tonne pile of chicken manure.
He told ABC news that the event turned his day into a real stinker.
He said: ‘The council had shifted it to the edge of the runway and the aeroplane finished up in that.
‘Well there was a bit of give in it. I'm still a bit stiff and sore though, I can tell you.’
[Metro]
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