This Plane Lost Its Tail But Everybody Survived

If you're afraid of flying, you must be always running some scary scenarios in your head. A plane runs out of gasoline; the engines stall; an aircraft crashes into a flock of birds... But what if a plane broke in half? This really happened in April 2022. A DHL Boeing 757-200 cargo plane on its way to Guatemala was picking up speed on the runway. Did the pilots manage to land it?

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[ixsudmk]

these pilots are ready for any what so ever disaster and still manage to stay calm, resolve the issue and land safely. shout out to these heroes!

[confusionandstuff]

You got SO. MUCH. WRONG. about the Gimli Glider.

First of all, you make it sound like the pilots realized the mistake right before they ran out of fuel. In reality, they didn’t know about it until both engines were already stopped, so there was no way for them to use the turbines to brake.

Second, Gimli Air Base had closed down by the time the incident happened, and had been turned into a racetrack, so there was no way the pilots contacted the base to clear the runway. Furthermore, there was no garbage on the runway. Instead of garbage, there were two boys riding bikes, both of them managing to ride away before the plane touched down.

Third: “The plane began to land very smoothly.” Nope. The approach made before landing probably wasn’t smooth, as the plane’s hydraulics used a small turbine at the bottom of the plane to power the plane if power went out, and that turbine powered the plane less the more the plane slowed down to land.

Finally, you say the front landing gear broke during the touchdown. This is wrong, as when the pilots opened the landing gear to use gravity to lock the wheels in place, (remember, they had almost no power) the front landing gear failed to lock BEFORE touchdown, and not during touchdown.

So, you managed to mess up quite a few facts, and left out probably the most interesting part about this incident: the captain performed a forward slip, where you apply the rudder one way and put the ailerons the other way, which is usually only for gliders, so doing it on a commercial aircraft was pretty significant.

[justintheprotogen]

2:49
this is why the fire brigade at an airport has a unit that cover the runway in a layer of foam so the aircraft won't spark or heat up as much.
just for the sake of information

[AdrenalineLegends]

Also, for the DHL, the tail did NOT break off. The plane skidded into a ditch, the force of that impact broke it off

[laqundrabarnett]

Imagine being on a plane and then it Titanic-style splits in half in midair

[italianlifestyle]

Terrifying.. after watching this I sure won't travel by plane anytime soon!😲

[jasonli]

British airways windshield broke like the Korean plane.

[ThatFPSGuyVR]

‘The pilots controlled the plane using it’s wings’ NAHHH! mind blown

[Prajapati]

Nice to meet you generation a nice labour aeroplane😂🎉❤😊

[oluwabunmi]

Yayyy something about Edmonton!!! Where’s all my people from Edmonton??

[imsubbingtoeveryonewhosubs]

Only people who didn’t come from TikTok are worthy of liking this 🏆

[concorde]

Okay that’s probably aisiana flight 214?

[e_c]

On September 1st 2001 a airplane 3 airplanes crashed into the twin towers

[jameelahdeca]

what! right this year april 2022 that's even a scary flight 😱

[prankerganster]

thats explains missing package from dhl

[DazaiChuuyaA]

On the last one my grand ma was born on the same year 1940 but she died on 2017 sadly😔😭😭

[kay-dc]

The plane lost its wing and said "Not today"

[Vanadium]

I’m an avgeek and you got a lot wrong about some of these flights. For u.s airways 1549 don’t show a badly animated 747 fly over the Hudson. It was an a320. For the gimli glider, you said the plane started landing very smoothly. This is not true. The pilot preformed a side slip. A technique when you use the rudders to angle the plane to the right or left.

[ervynnesevillano]

Ummm wrong description the description should be "the gimli glider" or anything else,

[matthewwoelke]

There’s a movie for sully about the plane that got hit by birds