The tie club that nobody wants turns 75 with 7,777 lives saved

When Major Lin Wei took off last Saturday at 8:40 a.m. from Taitung Air Base, on the east coast of Taiwan, he did not know that that day would receive two gifts. One was nothing less than to preserve his life. The other was a souvenir tie that was going to be the worst drink in the 34 years of his existence. The AT-5 Nationally made Brave Eagle that piloted on a training flight crashed in waters near the coast due to a failure in both engines. F…