Collected and Contributed
By Nidhi Balachandran, Sr. Manager,
Rainbow Telecommunications.
Short of
the actual crash, most of the accidents depicted here occurred without
loss of human life, and thus can be described as "Oops". There is a site
"Aviation Safety" where many troublesome situations are listed and
discussed, with full background information for each. What you will see
here is a collection of images from various such occasions, sent to us
by readers who found them or even witnessed the events.
On the Ground
The hazards start while the plane is still on the runway. Most of the
time they are results of the "reckless driving" of the taxiing & service
vehicles.
The accident
above happened fairly recently - Dec 2007. The plane slid off the runway
in the snow. A six year-old passenger in one of the cars on the street
was killed.
The story for
the accident below goes: "The mechanics failed to have someone riding
brakes in the plane, failed to bring chokes and failed to set parking
brakes on both aircraft AND the tug... and then they left aircraft
unattended"
Michael Lashley,
as an aircraft safety inspector, have seen multiple occasions when
aircraft was endangered by the careless driving of mechanics. The
example below is credited to "Mechanics driving with no Hyd pressure for
brakes" –
Sliced!
Ilyushin Il-62M Aeroflot at Anchorage in 1999, got sliced a little:
Plane chopped by
the propeller of another plane:
The story on
this rampage is playing out to the tune of a quarter of a million
dollars - these are the damages for 4 destroyed planes. The poor guy
who's responsible for this started the engine of his private Piper
Saratoga plane - and then lost control, slicing through four other
planes and crashing into the fifth...
Double-Deckers:
It does not help
if there are some potholes on the runway:
(plus a bunch of construction equipment)
or a huge snake:
Containers are
not a good thing to digest:
Asleep at the
wheel?
In the Air
All tangled up...
Famous occasion
of the cargo doors opening in the middle of a flight:
(never a good thing, read for example this account)
Strange Landings
Broken Landing
Gear:
The tires... are
gone
Blown engine:
Southwest Airlines 737-2
One-Wing
Landing!
There is a
fascinating story behind this (technically impossible) landing. Israel
pilot Zivi Nedivi had a collision with another plane, but could not see
that his wing was missing (because of trailing fuel vapors), otherwise
he would've immediately bailed out. As it was, he proceeded to land, and
had a greatest surprise when he saw in what condition F-15 brought him
to safety...
Washed ashore...