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5 More Unbelievable Airplane Water Landings
You seemed to love the first video we put out on this topic, so here’s a sequel for you. Here are 5 more
incredible stories of pilots whose thousands of hours of training, not to mention quick thinking and
grace under pressure, have allowed them to prevent a disaster from ballooning into an even bigger one.
The entry in number one is one of aviation’s unsolved mysteries so make sure to stay tuned for that.
Here are 5 more unbelievable airplane water landings.
Number 5. Air France Flight 152
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Air France Flight 152 was a scheduled international passenger flight that originated from Paris and was
destined for Tehran, including stopovers in Rome and Beirut. The aircraft completed the first leg of its
journey quite uneventfully, landing in Rome without any incidents. It took time to refuel before it took
off a few hours for its next destination; Beirut.
On the way to Beirut, the plane was cruising at around 17,000 feet when one of its engines, engine
Number 3, started to vibrate quite violently. The shaking was so violent that the entire engine detached
from the aircraft itself. It even hit and damaged the fuselage when it detached, before plummeting into,
fortunately, the dark ocean below. Down one engine, the four-engine Lockheed L-749A Constellation
was in big trouble, but at least still had 3 more working engines, making it theoretically possible for the
aircraft to make a safe emergency landing on the nearest runway. But, it didn’t get the chance to.
The damage created by the loss of Engine 3 was so great that soon after, Engine 4 also started to shake
violently, causing the pilots to lose control over it. They were clearly in dire straits as the aircraft wasn’t
designed to fly on two engines alone. Lacking power, the aircraft rapidly started to lose altitude. At this
point, the crew sent three separate distress calls, then finally decided to make an extremely risky water
landing. They chose a site off the coast of Fethiye in South-Western Turkey after spotting the flashing
light of the Kızılada Lighthouse
During the descent, the flight attendants informed the passengers about the situation, calmed them
down, and instructed them to put on life jackets. Fortunately, the sea was very calm at the time and the
pilots were able to execute a flawless emergency water landing. The passengers and the crew promptly
evacuated the airplane using the four emergency exits, and initially remained on the wings of the
floating aircraft for over an hour before it finally sank.
There were a total of 42 people on board the plane and despite the amazing landing, 4 elderly people
still lost their lives due to drowning. However, t6he casualties would have been a lot more if it weren’t
for the perfect landing executed by the pilots.
Number 4. Garuda Indonesia Flight 421
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Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Indonesian flag carrier Garuda
Indonesia traveling a relatively short 388 mile trip from Ampenan to Yogyakarta. The plane, which was a
Boeing 737-3Q8 and is the first 737 to be added to the Garuda Indonesia fleet.
The flight started quite normally and was already on the approach to its destination when it
encountered by a very uncharacteristically strong thunderstorm. The size of the storm can be visibly
seen ahead of the aircraft and was being detected by the plane’s radar, but the crew still decided to fly
through it anyway. The pilot saw a chance to squeeze the huge plane into a relatively calm gap in
between two storm cells, which sounded like a pretty good idea at the time compared to the alternative
of circling around the storm. In hindsight, I think everybody on board should have opted to circle around
and just have the flight slightly delayed.
They made for the gap but as soon as they entered, the aircraft was bombarded with heavy rain and
hail. Just a minute and a half later, as the plane was descending to 19,000 feet, both of the plane’s
engines experienced a flameout. A flameout is when an open flame inside the combustion chamber of
a jet engine gets extinguished. The loss of flame can have a variety of causes, such as fuel starvation,
excessive altitude, compressor stall, foreign object damage deriving from birds, hail, or volcanic ash,
severe precipitation, mechanical failure, or very cold ambient temperatures caused by, you’ve guessed
it, severe weather conditions.
The crew, of
