{"id":342919,"date":"2026-04-13T12:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/150-holes-zero-quit-kim-campbells-a-10-miracle-over-baghdad\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:54:44","slug":"150-holes-zero-quit-kim-campbells-a-10-miracle-over-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/150-holes-zero-quit-kim-campbells-a-10-miracle-over-baghdad\/","title":{"rendered":"150 Holes, Zero Quit: Kim Campbell&#8217;s A-10 Miracle Over Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\n<p>The caution panel lights up like a Christmas tree. The stick goes dead. The jet rolls left, nose pitching toward the Tigris River and the rooftops of Baghdad below. Captain Kim &#8220;Killer Chick&#8221; Campbell has maybe two seconds to decide: eject over one of the most hostile cities on earth \u2014 or fight for an airplane that no longer wants to fly.<\/p>\n\n<p>She chooses the airplane.<\/p>\n\n<p>What follows is one of the most extraordinary feats of airmanship in modern combat history. On April 7, 2003 \u2014 seventeen days into the invasion of Iraq \u2014 Campbell nursed a shattered A-10 Thunderbolt II more than 300 miles back to base using nothing but a system of mechanical cables and cranks designed for exactly this kind of impossible day. When ground crews counted the holes, they stopped at 150.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4f8;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:18px 0 28px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#333\">Quick Facts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Pilot:<\/strong> Captain Kim &#8220;Killer Chick&#8221; Campbell, 75th Fighter Squadron<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> A-10A Thunderbolt II, tail number 81-0987<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> April 7, 2003 \u2014 Operation Iraqi Freedom<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Mission:<\/strong> Close air support over Baghdad<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Damage:<\/strong> Hundreds of shrapnel holes, football-sized hole in right stabiliser, both hydraulic systems destroyed, one engine damaged<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Recovery:<\/strong> Manual reversion flight \u2014 300 miles on cables and cranks<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Award:<\/strong> Distinguished Flying Cross<\/p><\/div>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Troops in Contact<\/h2>\n\n<p>Campbell and her flight lead, Lieutenant Colonel Rick &#8220;Bino&#8221; Turner, launched from a forward base that morning with a standard tasking: strike Iraqi tanks and a command post. Weather made the mission difficult from the start \u2014 clouds forced them to hunt for the tanker, and Campbell later wrote in her diary that spatial disorientation set in while flying through the overcast.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then the radio call came. American troops were taking fire from Iraqi Republican Guard forces near the Tigris River. The two A-10s were diverted to a troops-in-contact situation \u2014 the most urgent call a close air support pilot can receive. There was no time for detailed briefings. Campbell could see rocket-propelled grenades arcing into friendly positions from above.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Warthog pilots went to work. Multiple passes with the legendary 30mm GAU-8 Avenger cannon. High-explosive rockets. The enemy was concentrated on the south side of the river, so they adjusted their attack runs accordingly. It was the kind of mission the A-10 was born for \u2014 low, slow, and lethal.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=35168704  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/b6\/Kim_campbell_damage_a10.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Campbell damaged A-10 Thunderbolt II tail section showing extensive shrapnel holes from Baghdad 2003\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The shredded tail of Campbell&#8217;s A-10 after landing. Hundreds of shrapnel holes and a football-sized hole in the right horizontal stabiliser were visible. USAF photo \/ SSgt Jason Haag \/ Public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Hit<\/h2>\n\n<p>It happened on the final rocket pass. Campbell felt something slam into her aircraft \u2014 hard. The sound was unmistakable. In her diary that night, she wrote simply: &#8220;I felt something hit the jet. At the same time, the jet rolled left and nose low. The hydraulics were gone instantly.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>A surface-to-air missile had detonated near the right horizontal stabiliser, sending a storm of shrapnel through the fuselage. The explosion severed both primary and backup hydraulic lines simultaneously \u2014 the one scenario the A-10&#8217;s designers hoped would never happen, but prepared for anyway. The hydraulic gauge dropped to zero. Every caution light on the panel screamed at once. The jet, suddenly uncontrollable, rolled hard left and pointed its nose at Baghdad.<\/p>\n\n<p>Campbell&#8217;s first thought was brutal in its honesty. As she later admitted: she thought about how bad it would be to eject over Baghdad. Below her lay one of the most heavily defended cities on earth, teeming with Iraqi forces who had just watched her strafe their positions. An ejection meant capture \u2014 or worse.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/cd\/Kim_campbell_a10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"flex-shrink:0\"><img data-opt-id=1379432636  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/cd\/Kim_campbell_a10.jpg\" alt=\"Col. Kim \"KC\" Campbell (Ret.)\" style=\"width:96px;height:96px;border-radius:50%;object-fit:cover;object-position:top;display:block;border:2px solid #ddd\"><\/a><div><em>&ldquo;I lost all hydraulics instantaneously, and the jet rolled left and pointed toward the ground, which was an uncomfortable feeling over Baghdad.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Col. Kim &#8220;KC&#8221; Campbell (Ret.)<\/strong> &mdash; A-10 pilot, author of Flying in the Face of Fear<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Cranks and Cables<\/h2>\n\n<p>Every other fighter jet in the American inventory would have been finished. The F-16, the F-15, the F\/A-18 \u2014 all fly-by-wire or hydraulic-dependent aircraft. Lose the hydraulics, lose the jet. But the A-10 Thunderbolt II was designed by people who expected it to get shot. Fairchild Republic built the Warthog to absorb punishment that would destroy anything else in the sky, and they gave it one last trick for the worst day imaginable: manual reversion.<\/p>\n\n<p>Manual reversion is old-school engineering at its finest. Steel cables and mechanical linkages run from the control stick directly to trim tabs on the flight control surfaces. When hydraulics fail, a pilot can physically move these tabs through cranks and pulleys, and the tabs then deflect the larger control surfaces through aerodynamic force alone. It works. But the Air Force&#8217;s own 1982 study called the system&#8217;s pilot workload &#8220;unacceptable for the landing task.&#8221; Pilots compare it to driving a dump truck without power steering \u2014 at 250 knots.<\/p>\n\n<p>Campbell engaged manual reversion. The jet responded. Slowly, painfully, she pulled the nose up and started climbing away from Baghdad. Anti-aircraft fire chased them from every direction as she and Turner manoeuvred south, trying to put distance between themselves and the city. The airplane was flyable \u2014 barely \u2014 but every input demanded enormous physical effort, and the controls responded with the precision of a shopping trolley with a broken wheel.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=2032125663327764841&#038;theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:400px;border:none;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">300 Miles on Muscle and Faith<\/h2>\n\n<p>Turner pulled alongside to assess the damage and deliver the news. He counted roughly a hundred holes in the fuselage and tail section on the right side alone, plus a football-sized hole punched clean through the right horizontal stabiliser. One engine was damaged. Large sections of the hydraulic controls were simply missing \u2014 ripped away by the blast.<\/p>\n\n<p>The flight back to Ahmad Al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait took over an hour. An hour of fighting a crippled jet through the sky with cable tension and arm strength. An hour of knowing that the landing \u2014 without hydraulics, without speed brakes, without nose-wheel steering, without normal brakes \u2014 would be the hardest part. Campbell relied on Turner&#8217;s calm voice and her own exhaustive training. She later reflected that the jet was performing so well in manual reversion that she never seriously considered ejecting.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then came the approach. No speed brakes to slow down. No antiskid braking. No steering once the wheels touched. Campbell used emergency alternate braking procedures \u2014 techniques practised in simulators but almost never executed for real. She put the Warthog on the runway and brought it to a stop.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d1ldvf68ux039x.cloudfront.net\/thumbs\/photos\/2507\/9152071\/858w_q95.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"flex-shrink:0\"><img data-opt-id=2028839070  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/d1ldvf68ux039x.cloudfront.net\/thumbs\/photos\/2507\/9152071\/858w_q95.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Lt. Col. Mike Millen\" style=\"width:96px;height:96px;border-radius:50%;object-fit:cover;object-position:center;display:block;border:2px solid #ddd\"><\/a><div><em>&ldquo;Kim landed that jet with no hydraulics better than I land the A-10 every day.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Lt. Col. Mike Millen<\/strong> &mdash; Fellow A-10 pilot<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Landing Nobody Expected<\/h2>\n\n<p>When the aircraft finally stopped rolling, the emotions hit. Campbell later described it as one of the most overwhelming moments of her life. In her diary, she wrote: &#8220;It was such a relief to touch down and feel the jet come to a stop, some serious emotions at that point.&#8221; Years later, she would say something even more remarkable: &#8220;To this day, I&#8217;m convinced it was one of the best landings I have ever done.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>The next morning \u2014 less than 24 hours after nearly dying over Baghdad \u2014 Campbell climbed into another A-10 and flew a combat mission. This time, she supported a search-and-rescue operation for a different downed A-10 pilot near the city. That is what fighter pilots do. You process later. You fly now.<\/p>\n\n<p>General Richard Myers, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, later singled out Campbell&#8217;s feat in a speech at the Air Force Academy. His words cut to the heart of why this story matters.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/73\/Richard_Myers_official_portrait.jpg\/440px-Richard_Myers_official_portrait.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"flex-shrink:0\"><img data-opt-id=1021508400  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/73\/Richard_Myers_official_portrait.jpg\/440px-Richard_Myers_official_portrait.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Gen. Richard Myers\" style=\"width:96px;height:96px;border-radius:50%;object-fit:cover;object-position:top;display:block;border:2px solid #ddd\"><\/a><div><em>&ldquo;She&#8217;s one of the few pilots who ever landed the A-10 in the manual mode. A lot of people think that it&#8217;s not even worth trying. That&#8217;s a credit to her skill, her training, her dedication, and leadership.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Gen. Richard Myers<\/strong> &mdash; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001-2005)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=1983897014023708901&#038;theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:400px;border:none;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Fighter Pilot \u2014 No Adjective Required<\/h2>\n\n<p>Kim Campbell went on to fly 1,800 hours in the A-10 and complete more than 100 combat missions across Iraq and Afghanistan. She rose to the rank of Colonel, commanded the 612th Theater Operations Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, and later served as Director of the Center for Character and Leadership Development at the Air Force Academy \u2014 the same institution where she had been cadet wing commander as a Class of 1997 graduate. Her husband, Colonel Scott Campbell, is also an A-10 pilot. They met at the Academy.<\/p>\n\n<p>After retiring in 2021 following 24 years of service, she wrote a bestselling book, <em>Flying in the Face of Fear: A Fighter Pilot&#8217;s Lessons on Leading with Courage<\/em>, and now speaks to audiences around the world about leadership under pressure. When asked about being a woman in the fighter community, her answer is characteristically direct: &#8220;I&#8217;m just a fighter pilot, no adjective required.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Her A-10 \u2014 tail number 81-0987, with its hundreds of patched holes and its missing stabiliser \u2014 was too badly damaged to ever fly again. It sits today on static display at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina, a monument to the aircraft that refused to die and the pilot who refused to give up on it.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"max-width:720px;margin:24px auto 28px\"><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7VzXN4Ohwro\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen style=\"border-radius:10px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p><em>Sources: DVIDS \/ U.S. Air Force, Task &#038; Purpose, The War Zone, Hush-Kit, Flight Global<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/warthogs-last-war-a-10s-deploy-before-retirement\/\">Warthog&#8217;s Last War: A-10s Deploy Before Retirement<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/warthog-learns-a-new-trick-a-10-gets-probe-and-drogue-refueling\/\">Warthog Learns a New Trick: A-10 Gets Probe-and-Drogue Refueling<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The caution panel lights up like a Christmas tree. 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