Successful Emergency Landings
Click on the image to open a You Tube Video of the emergency landing. All the landings shown here were successful.
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B-17 Belly Landing Stunt pilot Paul Mantz made this landing for the movie 12 O'Clock High. |
B-17 One Wheel Landing This landing took place in England in WWII. |
B-17 Belly Landing This B17 made a belly landing at Station 109, Podington, England, home of the 92nd bomb group. |
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B-17 One Wheel Landing This B-17 from the 92nd Bomb Group based at Poddington, Bedforshire, England made this one-wheel landing in 1944. |
B-17 One-Wheel Landing, Then Other Collapses In 1944, a B-17 lands somewhere in England with right landing gear retracted. The left gear collapses as the plane veers to the right on the ground. |
B-17 Water Landing Training Video This is a training video made in WWII to train B-17 pilots and crew to make a water landing. |
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B-24 Water Landing Test In 1944, a pilot and co-pilot ditched a B-24 bomber in the James River as a test. |
B-24 Emergency Lancing Training Video This is a training video made in WWII to train B-24 pilots to land with various kinds of problems with the airplane. |
Crash Landing on Aircraft Carrier WWII This crash landing was made on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific in World War II. |
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Polish LOT Airliner Boeing 767 Belly Landing In 2011, Captain Tadeusz Wrona made this emergency landing at the Frederic Chopin airport Warsaw. Different camera views, including a recording from inside of the plane. |
Pan Am Boeing 367 Stratocruiser Ditches in the Pacific On October 16, 1956, This Boeing 337 Stratocruiser developed engine trouble at the "Point of No Return" between California and Hawaii. The Captain successfully ditched his aircraft in the ocean near a Coast Guard ship, whose crew rescued everybody safely. |
Corporate Jet Makes Belly Landing The pilot made this belly landing in Las Vegas. |
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Boeing 737--Without Left Landing Gear The plane was diverted from Charlotte, NC. |
Airbus A340--Without Left Landing Gear This happened November 5, 1997, at Heathrow Airport, London. |
Lockheed P-2V Fire bomber--Without Left Landing Gear The plane landed at the Miden-Tahoe Airport in Nevada |
