Aircraft accidents with meaning

[Φρανκομβριτ]

Any accidents that have any specific meaning to you? I'm going to ask we leave 9/11 out of this, because it really effected us all.

I've been in two minor accidents myself:

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/7/9/6/0211697.jpg
Engine fire

http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/virgin024/2.jpg
landing gear deployment failure


Personally, I found them both exciting, and it really wasn't that scary. None the less, there have been those in much less lucky situations. My parents both watched Pan Am 103 depart from Heathrow that night

http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/pa103/1.jpg

and an uncle of mine died on AA1420

http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/aa1420/1.jpg

Any accidents that have touched your life?

[TAC1]

I've been involved in a bird strike while flying with my instructor, had oil pressure failure, sudden loss of power....etc

Commercially, no, but I have been involved in a brid strike..

[Φρανκομβριτ]

Wow! A bird strike can be much more dangerous in a single engined aircraft! You're lucky you're okay!!

[EarthToBryan]

I don't think that 9/11 really affected me that much. I was pretty young, so watching it and peoples reactions made me cry, but not much else. Sure it was terrible, but worse things happen every day.
Once the airplane I was in got struck by lightening and all of the electronics were knocked out. The taxi ride home was more scary that the emergency landing though. Insanely fast taxi driver + no windsheild wipers + torrential downpour + nighttime= horrifying.

[Zephyr]

Not so much an accident, but I was in a plane that got hit by lightning, it caused some momentary turbulence and the plane dropped a bit due to interference with plane's instruments.

[Malcolm Tucker]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Kegworth_Air_Crash_Scene.jpg

This plane crashed at East Midlands, doing a LHR-BFS flight. My dad was on that same plane, a few hours earlier, on its previous sector. It did his flight, BFS-LHR before that ill-fated flight.

[TAC1]

Wow! A bird strike can be much more dangerous in a single engined aircraft! You're lucky you're okay!!

Most definitely! I can tell you right now...it was very nerve wrecking....
If I went down, I had 2 places to go. The CT River or in a small forest or farm..
Thank God for ELTs and PLBs..

[Kilometers]

I was flying with my brother and we hit a hawk.... It hit our wing and once we landed we found it in the parking lot... it was still alive.

[Neverender]

I live in Gander, NL. Now, a decade ago everyone who has ever flown knows where Gander is because it is[Was] the largest hub for atlantic travel in North America from World War on to about 2005. On 9/11, we had ~40 planes with 6000 people in our town of 10,000. That influenced me a lot.

And in 1985, the worst air disaster in Canadian History and the Biggest loss of US military life in peace time struck on December 15.

What terrifies me the most is that I recognize EVERY location of the crash in the video around the silent witness memorial. and inside the airport itself. Really brings it home.
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Gander_airport_Silent_witness.jpg

I cringe at the way americans say "Newfoundland"

[BlkOpsKing101]

9/11 didnt affect me all, cause I was to young ( i was 8) and didnt think of it. now it does! Tribbute to those who die that day! R.I.P! for 9/11 annversery (9-11-2011), our 10th year after that tregic year~ :'( :) :'( ;)

[TheMatrix]

Please do not bump threads older than 2 months.
Thanks.

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