On parole and on one wing.

When the fatal error is corrected incredible skill and fatal coincidence offset by happy accident, and a terrible disaster turns into an amazing rescue remains only say one thing: that's lucky!

1. Gimli Glider
July 23, 1983 "Boeing 767" airline Air Canada flight carried 143 from Ottawa to Edmonton. Half way in the tanks suddenly ran out of fuel. It later emerged that preflight refueling aircraft poured kerosene four times less than the required volume. Just at that time, Canada passed to the metric system of measurement, and the pilots are confused when paying in liters, kilograms, gallons and pounds. Hold on to the nearest airport - Winnipeg proved impossible. But the crew managed to bring the plane in planning mode to the former military airfield Gimli, and put him in front of the astonished members of the local auto club, conducted a family holiday on a closed runway.





2. Uinsorsky incident.

June 12, 1972 the aircraft McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 was flying American Airlines flight from Denver to Buffalo. In the sky near the town of Windsor suddenly the door opened the rear cargo compartment. It turned out that it is still on the ground, as they say, "nedozakryli." Pilots miraculously returned control of the liner and could put him in Detroit. A manufacturer of aircraft of this type are strictly ordered to remake the locks on the doors.



3. Emergency landing of Tu-154 Izhme.

September 7, 2010 Tu-154 flying from Yakutia in Moscow, when there was a full on-board power failure. The crew of the plane planted "by eye" in the former airport Izhma on the runway, not adapted to the reception of such a large aircraft. Experts have estimated a safe landing, emergency vehicle on a short strip of a miracle. Miracle contributed very enthusiastic worker Sergey Sotnikov airport. Over the years, it will support the band in fair condition, removing debris and cutting down bushes. Later, this story has become one of the stories in the movie "Christmas Tree 2».



4. A320 emergency landing on the Hudson.

15 January 2009 Airbus A320-214 Airlines US Airways Flight 1549 carried out from New York to Seattle. 90 seconds after takeoff the plane collided with a flock of birds, after which both the engine refused. Height less than a kilometer down - New York, things are bad. But sitting at the helm of Chesley Sullenberger, a former military pilot and, for a moment, an expert in the field of flight safety. He was able to plan right on the river, and passengers safely removed rescuers on boats and came to the rescue boats. A plane after the lifting on land bought Air Museum "Carolinas».



5. Jakarta incident.

This legendary story takes place in the skies over the Indian Ocean. June 24, 1982 Boeing 747-236B of British Airways was in a cloud of ash ejected by the volcano Galunggung on the island of Java. First, there was a smell of smoke in the cabin stewards rushed to look smoker but, of course, was not found. Then he began to break out of the engine flames, and one by one they left off. With grief in half, the plane was able to sit down at the airport in Jakarta. But since then, active volcanoes airlines fear like the plague.



6. Flight 5390 British Airways.

June 10, 1990 the plane BAC 1-11 British Airways route from Birmingham to Malaga. Flight goes well, the passengers began to distribute food. Captain Tim Lancaster undid the shoulder belt and loosened the belt. And then the windshield to break out of the cabin, and Lancaster flew through the doorway to the outside. Captain with his back to the fuselage of the aircraft from the outside, and his legs stuck between the steering wheel and the control panel. Twenty two minutes the plane crash sat in Southampton. All this time the captain spent outside. He was held by the legs flight attendants. They feared that if the body to release (no one doubted that Tim is dead), it gets into the engine, and the burn. Five months after the accident, Tim sat down again at the helm.



7. Flying on a wing MiG.

May 27, 1955 ground crew mechanic Peter Gorbanev served stuck in the mud near the runway fighter. The aircraft climbed to the band and went to take off, "grab" with a mechanic. Airflow Gorbaneva leaned in half around the front of the plane of the wing. Climb the pilot noticed that the car is behaving unusually. Looking around, he saw something on the right wing (it was night, do not consider) from the ground, he was offered reset "foreign object" by maneuvering. But the silhouette of "object" seemed suspiciously like a man, and the pilot went to the landing. The plane landed, carrying a half circle over the airfield. All 27 minutes of its flight on the wing interceptor Gorbanev, who, moreover, had two broken ribs, did not lose consciousness. Airflow is firmly held him on a plane wing. The hero of this story and still live in the town of Morshansk.



8. Spring Vulovic.

Twenty-two flight attendant was the only survivor of the crash of the aircraft McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, flight JAT 367. January 26, 1972 the plane was destroyed by a bomb, and the girl was still alive after the fall without a parachute from a height of 10 160 meters. She received serious injuries and spent several days in a coma, but after one and a half years of treatment, returned to a normal life and work in the airline, but already on the ground. Her fall was not only a happy occasion, but also a Guinness Record.



9. Julian Kёpke.

Julian Kёpke became the only survivor in the crash of Flight 508 airline LANSA, which occurred December 24, 1971 with an airplane Lockheed L-188 Electra. The plane fell from a height of 3000 meters deep rainforest. In the fight for the life of Julian for 9 days with a broken collarbone own way through the jungle to the people. In Italy about it was filmed "Miracles happen more».



10. Larissa Savitskaya.

Larisa Savitskaya survived the crash and fall without a parachute from a height of 5200 meters. AN-24, on which she was traveling collided with a military bomber Tu-16, both aircraft were destroyed. At the time of the disaster Larisa Savitskaya asleep in his chair in the rear of the aircraft. The woman was awakened by a strong blow, after which it was immediately thrown into the aisle between the seats. When he awoke, she got to the nearest chair, climbed up and shrank into it, and not strapped. Larisa herself later claimed that at the time she remembered the scene from the film where the heroine in a plane crash shrank in the chair and survived. The film was called "Miracles happen more.»

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