Today Becca is being a bit scatter-brained. She couldn’t choose just one case, so we’ve got three mini-tales rolled into 1, all on the subject of aeroplanes and how terrifying hurtling through the sky in a lump of metal is!
So, erm, nervous flyers or vertigo-sufferers, maybe give this a miss (Elle wishes she could!). Everybody else, let’s take embark on the hair-raising flights of: the 1988 Aloha Airlines flight number 243, the British airways Flight 5390 in 1990, and Germanwings 2015 flight, 9525.
Sources
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https://tailstrike.com/database/28-april-1988-aloha-243/
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/screams-then-silence-the-story-of-flight-243s-miracle-landing/BDV7QVFFX2K23KKZDEOUWZGI54/
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/04/30/and-then-whoosh-she-was-gone/a4da02d6-c8c3-47f7-a4e4-da2097a73b2a/
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/image-of-pilot-hanging-out-window-captures-heroic-story-30-years-on/GR2HBBCBUGMOTA7MEYPI7UR54A/
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32072220
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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germanwings-pilot-intentionally-crashes-plane-killing-150-people
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brit-28-killed-psychotic-pilot-25412113
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390
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https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19900610-1
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190112140812/http://home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/june-10-1990-miracle-of-ba-flight-5390-as-captain-is-sucked-out-of-the-cockpit-and-survives-11363985642960