They are very lucky.
On 7 July, a passenger plane operated by Air Canada flying from Toronto, was mistakenly sent not to the runway and taxiway, which at the time were still four liner. Dispatchers managed to stop the pilot to give the command to go to the second round, after which the aircraft landed safely already on the right lane.
According to the head of Aero Consulting Experts and former United Airlines pilot Ross Ijmeer, the incident threatened to become the biggest disaster in aviation history: “Imagine the huge Airbus, which crashed into four passenger airliner with full tanks”.
The Boeing 777 crash in San Francisco
July 6, 2013 crash occurred Boeing 777 in San Francisco. The Boeing 777-28EER Asiana Airlines made flight OZ 214 Seoul—San Francisco, but landing in San Francisco crashed into an embankment before the end of the runway and collapsed.
The cause of the accident, the Commission NTSB called erroneous actions of the crew: the plane dropped too fast. The pilots noticed that the rate of descent and air speed is not appropriate when the plane was 60 feet from the ground, but did not take actions to care for the second circle. More precisely, 1.5 seconds before the collision, the crew decided to go to the second round, but this was not.
From blow the plane took off the tail and left engine, fuselage slid across the lane for about 600 metres and described almost a complete circle — it turned 330 degrees.
From aboard the 307 people (291 passengers and 16 crew members) were killed 3 school girls (two at the crash site and one died in hospital), 187 people were injured. “Only three people” — it’s hard to believe, looking at the pictures of the broken liner.
This crash showed that serious damage of the aircraft do not mean great sacrifices. there is another interesting fact: contrary to the common theory that the safest seats are at the back of the plane, all three crash victims were sitting right there.
Salon of flight 214 after the crash:
Miracle in Toronto 2005
It was loud when all people survived when the liner is completely destroyed.
August 2, 2005 near Toronto Pearson international airport accident aircraft A340 of Air France, which carried out the AFR358 flight on the route Paris—Toronto. On Board were 12 crew and 297 passengers.
The landing was carried out in adverse weather conditions with major storm centers over the airport in torrential rain and flashes of lightning on the runway. Planting was carried out manually disconnected the autopilot and autothrottle.
Flying the end of the runway is significantly higher installed, the aircraft has landed more than one third from the beginning of the long runway. The pilots applied the reverse, but are unable to stay within the band, causing the airliner slid off the runway and rolled into a ravine. There was a fire, which in a few minutes engulfed the airliner and destroy it, but all 309 people on Board were evacuated in time.
The evacuation of 309 people took less than 2 minutes, and subsequently, many, including the Minister of transport of Canada Jean Lapierre called “a miracle”. Image: airliners.net.
To survive after falling from 5-km altitude
Young student Larissa Savitskaya, together with her husband Vladimir came back from the honeymoon. 24 Aug 1981 Antonov an-24, which flew the couple Sawicki, at a height of 5220 m was faced with a military bomber Tu-16. After the collision, the crews of both aircraft were killed. As a result of collision the An-24 has lost the wings with fuel tanks and upper fuselage. The remaining part during the fall several times broke.
Passenger plane An-24
At the time of the disaster Larisa Savitskaya was sleeping in his chair in the rear of the aircraft. Was awakened by a strong shock and flash burn (the temperature immediately dropped from 25 °C to -30 °C). After another break of the fuselage, held right in front of her chair, Larissa was thrown into the aisle, waking up, she walked into the nearest chair, climbed up and dove into it, and not strapped. Herself Larissa later argued that in that moment she was reminded of the scene from the film “Miracles still happen”, where the heroine is in a plane crash dove into the passenger seat and survived.
Tu-16K:
Part of the body of the aircraft planned for the birch grove, which softened the blow. In subsequent studies, all the falling wreckage of the plane with dimensions of 3 meters wide by 4 meters in length, which turned out to be Savitskaya, took 8 minutes. A few hours Savitskaya was unconscious. Waking up on the ground, Larisa saw a chair with the body of the dead husband. She received several serious injuries, but he was able to walk.
Two days later she was found by rescuers who were surprised when, after two days they caught only dead bodies, they met a living person. She later learned that was already dug the grave for her, and for her husband. She was the only survivor of the 38 people on Board. The reasons of collision of the aircraft was poor organization and management of flights in the terminal area of Zavitinsk.
Larissa Savitskaya twice brought to the Russian edition of the Guinness Book of records:
as a person who survived a fall from the maximum height,
as the person who received the lowest amount of compensation for physical damage — 75 rubles. According to the standards of state insurance in the USSR relied 300 rubles of compensation for the dead and 75 RUB over the survivors of a plane crash.
Larissa Savitskaya son George. Image: sergiev.ru.
To survive after falling from a height of 10 km without a parachute
Disaster DC-9 over the Hermsdorf — aviation accident that occurred on 26 January 1972. Airliner McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Yugoslav Airlines airline performing flight JAT367 on the route Stockholm — Copenhagen — Zagreb — Belgrade, but after 46 minutes after taking off from Copenhagen airliner exploded in the air. According to some, the bomb in the baggage compartment of the airliner left the Croatian group of extremists.
DC-9-32 JAT airlines, identical blown:
The explosion of the ship occurred over the German town of Hermsdorf, and the wreckage fell near the town česká Kamenice (Czech Republic). Of the people on Board 28 people (23 passengers and 5 crew members) survived, only one — 22-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulovic, who fell without a parachute from a height of 10 160 meters. She holds the world altitude record for surviving in free fall without a parachute, according to the Guinness Book of records.
Vesna was in a coma and received many injuries: fractures of the base of the skull, three vertebrae, both legs and pelvis. Treatment took 16 months, of which over 10 of the girl was paralyzed in the lower body (from the waist to the feet).
Miracle on the Hudson: crash Landing A320
This accidents occurred on 15 January 2009. The airliner Airbus A320-214 airline US Airways operated flight 1549 AWE for the route new York—Charlotte—Seattle, and on Board were 150 passengers and 5 crew members. In 1.5 minutes after takeoff, the airliner collided with a flock of birds and he lost both engines. The commander Chesley Sullenberger, a former U.S. air force pilot, decided that the only way to save the 155 people on Board — landing on the Hudson river. The landing was successful.
The crew safely landed the plane in the water of the Hudson river in new York. All on Board were 155 people survived, and 83 people injured, 5 serious (most affected one flight attendant) and 78 minor.
BB media incident known as the “miracle on the Hudson”. In total there are 11 managed cases of emergency landings of passenger aircraft on the water, this case is the fourth that cost no casualties.
By the way, yesterday, July 17, 2017 the plane “Ural airlines” (flight U6-2932 Simferopol — Ekaterinburg) collided with a flock of birds, causing the nose cone was damaged. It would seem that such a large object and some birds, but … the plane eventually repaired 12 hours.
Here is the collision of birds with the pilot’s seat and outside:
The landing of Tu-124 on the Neva river
This case splashdown occurred in the Soviet air force in the skies over Leningrad on 21 August 1963. In the result of circumstances at the passenger aircraft Tu-124 engine failure, the ship began to plan half a kilometer high above the city centre. The crew remained nothing how to try to make a landing on the surface of the Neva. Survived all 52 people on Board.
Initially investigating the circumstances of the accident, the Commission blamed for a contingency on the crew. But later it was decided the pilots not to punish.
Splashdown Il-12 in Kazan
And 10 years earlier, on April 30, 1953, the Il-12 P, the company “Aeroflot” performing flight 35 on the route Moscow — Kazan — Novosibirsk. On Board were 18 passengers and 5 crew members. At 21:37, in that moment, when the plane is preparing for landing in Kazan, flew over the river, there was a very heavy blow. Crew members recalled that they had dark eyes. Both engines fell power, and exhaust nozzles appeared the flames.
Il-12 Aeroflot:
The captain decided to make an emergency water landing. Il-12 splashed down in the district of Kazan river port, after which the car began to fill with river water. the evacuation could not be implemented in time. The crew told the passengers that the plane landed in shallow water, which many attended to in order to pick up personal belongings. In fact, the depth of the river at this place was reached about 20 meters. As a result people, wearing clothes, entered the water and began to sink. Of the 22 people drowned a single passenger. The Commission of inquiry found that the cause of the accident was a collision of aircraft with a flock of ducks.
Miracle in the Andes
October 13 1972 a flight accident FH-227, which was called “Miracle in the Andes”. Airplane Fairchild FH-227D, Uruguay air force carried out a Charter flight 571 FAU route Montevideo—Mendoza—Santiago, and on Board were 5 crew members and 40 passengers (members of the Rugby team Old Cristians, their relatives and sponsors). On the approach to Santiago’s liner caught in a cyclone, slammed into a rock and collapsed at the foot of the mountain.
Aircraft Fairchild FH-227D Board T-571:
The survivors were minimal supply of food, in addition, there were no heat sources needed for survival in the harsh cold climate at an altitude of 3 600 metres. Desperate from starvation and radio news reports that “all measures on search of missing plane stop,” people began to eat the frozen bodies of their dead comrades. Rescuers learned about the survivors only after 72 days.
12 passengers died in the fall and the collision with the rock, 5 more died later from wounds and the cold. Then, the remaining 28 survivors were killed 8 more in the avalanche, which covered their housing from the fuselage of the aircraft, and later three more died from wounds.
The accident with the Boeing 737 over Kahului
It’s incidents occurred on 28 April 1988. The Boeing 737-297 airlines Aloha Airlines performed a domestic flight AQ 243 on the route Hilo, Honolulu, and on Board were 6 crew members and 89 passengers. But 23 minutes after takeoff, the plane suddenly blew off a significant portion of the fuselage structure in the bow. According to the report, the causes of the accident were: the corrosion of metal, epoxy a bunch of bad parts of the fuselage, as well as fatigue the rivets.
Survived a total of 94 people 95. Killed the senior flight attendant, Clarabell Lansing — at the moment of failure of the fuselage it was placed in the middle of the aircraft, and the air flow threw it out. Her body, like a detached fragment of the fuselage with a length of about 5.4 meters, search teams were unable to find.
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