Flying incidents You have been involved in

[Ari707]

I'll ask next time Italk to my mom

[Matt Molnar]

my sister was supposed to be on PA 103, my mom still has the ticket!

Not that you would want to sell it, but it must be worth something.

[hiss srq]

That would probably be a goldmine if you ever found yourself in a major pinch. I would be pretty torn that is defineately some history there.

[Ari707]

My sister was in Israel and was supposed to spend a few days in London on her way home but desided to stay in Israel with friends, once she did manage to get on a plane to come home the FBI came to our house to talk to her as to why she wasn't on the plane..

[cancidas]

not sure if this qualifies as an incident, but i was once told to go around due to an aircraft on the runway. he was at the opposite end and there were a good 4000 ft between us. since we were like 10 ft above the raunway we were told to go around, my respnose was "unable." we set down the airplane and after ground cleared us to taxi to parknig they gave us the number for the FSDO at the field. that was the last transmission from them. once we were shut down and were securing the airplane a FAA car pulled up and an inspector popped out to talk to us. we skipped out a fine because the controller gave us the go around instruction so late. in fact, if we had gone around we could ahve easily hit the piper arrow that was in the upwind! the aircraft was a G-IIB that i got checked out in a while ago out in AZ while i was in school.


i have a few more good stories, but those i can't talk about due to thier nature. maybe someday...

[Nonstop2AUH]

A few years ago I was on a BA flight from LHR to JFK (747-200 for those who care) that climbed suddenly and without warning while somewhere around Providence. The seatbelt sign wasn't on so people were around the cabin, going to the lav or putting things in the overhead so they got tossed pretty violently. I was seated and felt some combination of falling and like I was being pushed into my seat. The FAs looked really horrified, as if it was something they certainly didn't consider normal, but they did what they were supposed to do and took their seats. After leveling off, the flight deck came on the PA and with typical British understatement said something like "as some of you may have noticed, we had a technical issue but things have returned to normal."

The rest of the flight was uneventful except that on arrival at the gate, they kept everyone in their seats while an EMS team boarded to attend to some people who had been cut or otherwise injured. I always wondered what exactly had happened (of course there was no followup from BA) and found this incident (which at the time was reported in Newsday) in the FAA database, apparently the subsequent investigation determined that the cause was a malfunction with the autopilot that commanded a rapid
ascent.

For those of you interested in the technicalities (not all of which I understand), you can read about it here, with more technical details linked to the brief:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_i ... 0563&key=1

I don't understand enough of this to know how serious an incident it was or how much worse it could have been, but if any of you know I'd love to hear your thoughts.

[DHG750R]

I was working the night US405 went down . Happened to just transfer to LGA from JFK 3 weeks before so I was on the ramp . I'll spare you the gory details . After watching it be deiced for the 2nd time , I went back to work only to be jared by the noise and flash. I was among the first to arrive at the scene..
http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/us405/photo.shtml

I witnessed several others , including the Delta flight that struck the pier , http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0349317/L/


CO MD80 that overran runway 13 and ended up nose down in the mud. Just missed
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0108498/L/


While I was still at JFK , we had one notable incident whee an Alitalia 747 ripped one of our F28's rudder from it's mounting http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_i ... 3524&key=2