Video: ten terrifying landings, takeoffs and flights

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I've been in way too many of these. I have dreams about 'em almost nightly.
I was on the other Jet Blue incident; the one that hit ground in the middle of a whiteout snowstorm at JFK and instantly went sideways, slid off the runway, and landed in a ditch where we sat for an hour until the transports could get to us. Mad tourists busting out video cameras. Limited screaming. They deployed the yellow chutes and we went down the slide, landed in the snow. The transport got stuck mid-runway and we sat for another hour waiting to be dug out. Got a free Jet Blue voucher out of that one.

Another flight I was on, also trying to land at JFK but this time in late autumn. Tower Air. Got hit by a massive downdraft about 2000 feet from the runway. Altitude probably no more than 1000 ft and the thing nearly plowed into an apartment block off Woodhaven. It was a one-stop flight to Tel Aviv and a hundred orthodox Jews started praying. The pilot went into IDF mode and pulled straight up with no more than a couple hundred feet to spare, then circled and came again to land.

A third one I was on, Northwest back in 1989, LAX to Detroit, dropped so hard and fast that half the people hit the ceiling.

And four years ago, my brother's plane got hit by lightning over Connecticut, was somehow disabled and had to make an emergency landing at Hartford.

I know I shouldn't fly, but I can't help thinking this means I got good odds from now on.

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