What is your closest encounter with an airplane crash?

@Wildwater..... Continental ceased to exist in 2012


In May 2010, the airline announced that it would merge with UAL Corporation (the parent company of United Airlines) via a stock swap. Continental's shares were acquired by UAL Corporation. The acquisition was completed in October 2010, at which time the holding company was renamed United Continental Holdings.[2] During the integration period, each airline ran a separate operation under the direction of a combined leadership team, based in Chicago.[4] The integration was completed on March 3, 2012.... wiki

smurfjed wrote: »

@Wildwater..... Continental ceased to exist in 2012


In May 2010, the airline announced that it would merge with UAL Corporation (the parent company of United Airlines) via a stock swap. Continental's shares were acquired by UAL Corporation. The acquisition was completed in October 2010, at which time the holding company was renamed United Continental Holdings.[2] During the integration period, each airline ran a separate operation under the direction of a combined leadership team, based in Chicago.[4] The integration was completed on March 3, 2012.... wiki

Fair enough, I'm no airline buff but definitely Blue and Yellow on the tail. I didn't go looking up the logo I just recalled that Continental had blue and yellow on the tail.

was on a flight from Bangkok to London 12 years ago, the cargo had bees in it been delivered to the UK from Australia, anyway the bees got out of their box and an emergency light came on in the cockpit, captain taught there was a fire in the cargo hold, he dropped 30000 feet in 12/13minutes it was scary, we had to land in a place called uralsk Kazakhstan in a military base tiny runway, fair play to the captain he landed with only inches left on runway, spent 12hours sitting on the plane until they could get smaller planes to bring us home, some of the army came on board to have a look all dressed in their military gear massive Russian hats long leather coats machine guns the lot was like something out of Monty phyton, we got a £20 voucher off of British airways to use on our next fight with them....

WildWater wrote: »

Fair enough, I'm no airline buff but definitely Blue and Yellow on the tail. I didn't go looking up the logo I just recalled that Continental had blue and yellow on the tail.

Lufthansa?

smurfjed wrote: »

@Wildwater..... Continental ceased to exist in 2012

It merged with united, and the tail design remained on United planes.

Would love to know if the incident/non-incident was kosher or a little bit of a whoopsie.

All planes have to be fitted with TCAS 7.1 therefore if they got too close system would react, if you didnt feel your aircraft climb/descend, then most likely things were perfectly normal.

smurfjed wrote: »

All planes have to be fitted with TCAS 7.1 therefore if they got too close system would react, if you didnt feel your aircraft climb/descend, then most likely things were perfectly normal.

Indeed, and there was no sudden movement of our plane.

smurfjed wrote: »

Post time/date/location and flight details in this thread, and I'm sure that one of the gurus shall look for it.

Ryanair Knock to Stansted on 26/04/2017 flight would have departed Knock about 10am and this occurred over Irish midlands.

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

......a plane had crashed into the apartment block we'd lived in over there! Watching the footage it looked as though it actually hit the section we were in.

Wiki link here

:eek:

IIRC the DU ballast in that plane became hot enough to be a radioactive hazard.

I'm getting jealous, 272 flights in the last year and not one missed approach/baulked landing......

smurfjed wrote: »

I'm getting jealous, 272 flights in the last year and not one missed approach/baulked landing......

Come on smurfjed:D Let us simple fliers express our innocent stories. You pilots can be so cynical.:D

Was on a flight Heathrow to Dublin one night, Plane took off on schedule ( Air Lingus) but as it was climbing, and the wheels were retracting, there was a big flash and a bang. I was sitting about 4 seats back from the cockpit, with the hostess sitting on the jump seat just in front of the cockpit. I felt the bang directly underneath where I was sitting, and I thought,,,,the landing gear has taken a hit, so we have a problem. Then the Captain came on over the speakers. " Ladies and Gentlemen. we have just had what is known in flying as a " Lightening Strike", and it happens quite often. All of the indicators and gauges here at the controls are showing in the normal range, and we have no malfunction or other warnings showing. However, we are going to return to Heathrow and get everything checked out, as that's the prudent thing to do". Now while the Captain was trying to reassure the passengers, from where I was sitting, on the bulkhead just over where the Hostess was sitting, a whole row of multi-coloured light's were flashing. The Hostess was looking calm and unconcerned, exuding confidence, until I caught her eye, and motioned with my head to look up at the bulkhead. She saw the lights, smile vanished, she grabbed the phone and a few seconds later, all the lights were switched off...The plane returned safely to Heathrow ( was very quiet at that stage... no one saying much ) The engineers boarded the plane, and after some discussions, we were all off-loaded, and had to wait for another plane to continue the journey. Although it was dark when we left the plane, we could see that there were a lot of burn marks on the fuselage, About 6 weeks later, I was in Shannon, and asked a friend there was there any news of plane, and he told me that it was still there being repaired...………...
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@wildwater, one of the FR24 gurus looked it up and his response is...

They passed each other around Athboy. The UA 772 never passed directly over him and it was at fl320 and his flight was only at just over fl260

Two incidents come to mind. The first one happened when I was still teenager. I was living in Prague at the time, and a team from the International School there, of which I was a part, flew to Warsaw for a week of competitions against the local international school there. We flew in an ATR-72, and I remember falling asleep somewhere over the Polish border. I woke up on approach to Warsaw, and wondered why it was so quiet. I look outside and see that the prop on the left-hand engine was apparently feathered. We had apparently had an engine failure sometime during the approach. The landing itself was quite anticlimactic, although it was a bit disconcerting to see emergency services waiting on the taxiways next to the runway.

The second incident happened just last November, on a flight from Frankfurt to Amsterdam. About fifteen minutes out of Frankfurt, our little Embraer 190 (PH-EZD according to my log) suddenly began getting absolutely pummelled by turbulence. Left, right, up down, and all kinds of other weird movements, we got absolutely hammered for about fifteen minutes, and not in a good way. I had a window seat, and the wingtips were doing crazy 60, 70, 90 degree arcs and more, and the wing flex, from what little I could see in the dark, was getting perilously close to unhealthy levels. Now, I may not be a super frequent flyer, but I've clocked a good 100 flights since 2000, and I've never had any turbulence even approaching this. The flight attendants were getting worried, which says something. Oh, all that happened in clear air.