They managed to land.
Contact of the landing gear with a landing strip — one of the most pleasant sensations in the life of any person. Despite our habit of flying, subconsciously, we are still afraid to fly. Thoughts about what must get on the next flight, to defrost the fridge, charge the phone, feed the rest of the house for a week a cat is just a way of our consciousness to be distracted from the real danger.
In fact, every passenger and crew member happy only to be alive. Although the aircraft and is recognized as one of the safest means of movement in the world, in fact — we are afraid of them. Sometimes knowingly. Today we will show you some of the most successful emergency landings, of which all the participants of the incident went though and grizzled, but alive.
Landing on the levee
1988.
The levees in New Orleans may have been useless when Katrina lifted her skirt and showed the town his bony ass of death, but some role in saving human lives still played. In 1988, flying from Belize 737-Oh caught in a thunderstorm. The captain, Carlos Dardano, decided to put the car on one of the dams, the other options are simply not there. Professionalism, a little luck and a twenty minute passenger cries — that’s the price for not such a bleak fit.
Military base
1983.
The transition to the metric system brought down half of Canada: good loggers do not understand how this meter, and how many pounds in a liter. Not only loggers, but also the employees of Air Canada, calculated the supply of fuel to ship in the good old lbs. As a result, Boeing 767 simply ceased to go anywhere but down. To the destination was still a good half way. Fortunately, at the time located an abandoned military base, where, with the grace of crows wrecked, crashed an empty plane. Through perseverance and training pilots not hurt anybody.
On the wing
1983.
During a routine training flight, the aircraft of the Israeli air force F-15 Eagle accident did not share airspace with the A4 Skyhawk. The pilot immediately was aluminiowa himself from the wreck of the vessel. But Civi Nedivi who drove the F-15, too well knew the value of their machines. In addition, Civi had no idea that flies, in fact, on one wing — the pilot thought that the damage is minor. To the base, this craftsman held in a controlled spin and successfully planted the remnants of the plane. The latter, incidentally, a few years he served the air forces of Israel.
Let steer
1983.
On the way from des Moines to Denver, the pilot of the Boeing 737 had a heart attack. At first the passengers heard from the speakers frightening “is there a doctor?” from the chief steward, then, from him, entered the salon personally: “one of you guys knows how to fly a plane?”. Fortunately in first class was asleep, a little sorting through whiskey, captain mark Gongol. An experienced pilot, flying hundreds of hours on the B1 bomber, landed the plane without difficulty, albeit with a slight hangover.
Hudsonthe miracle
2009.
January 15, 2009 from new York’s LaGuardia airport, took off the chic Airbus A320 and immediately ran into a flock of migrating canadian geese. The commander decided to land right on the Hudson. In fact, one operating turbine he just wasn’t there. Airbus slid on the surface of the river as tin crafts on the blade machete. With the hole in the hull sinking ship had all the chances to become the second Titanic. However, clear actions command and rescuers were needed to get out of the rework of all the passengers.
