also as a plane crashed on a motor way, or crashed in a werid place?|||Only on Thursday 17th January 2008 a British Airways Boeing 777 had a catastrophic loss of power on its last approach to London Heathrow Airport - the world's busiest - but the captain managed to land it roughly but safely with no loss of life.
A similar incident occured in Bangkok only a few days earier to another Boeing belonging to Quantas.
Loss of power can be just as catastrophic as lack of fuel.|||Out of all the answers available, some of them very good examples of what you were looking for, you chose one that did not answer your question, contained one glaring error (the pilot flying was the first officer) and one highly debatable "fact" - many airports claim the title of "worlds busiest"
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|||On the roof. I left the landing lights on.
There was a crash near Kegworth, in 1988.
Also, in the early 1990's two Red Arrow jets had a near miss during a display. It was over Portsmouth, and it was an overcast day. I was standing in the back garden watching this when two of the jets got really close and one had to very quickly move out of the way of the other. The wing tips nearly touched.|||I thought it was the M62 in 1988. I was trying to get to Liverpool, for an interview with Brookside, and wondered why the motorway was blocked until I heard on the news later, that a light aircraft had come down on the motorway.|||yes to all three.|||Yes
An Air Transat fight from Europe to Canada had an emergency in mid Atlantic. due to poor maintenance procedures and bad cockpit drill the plane ran out of fuel, however the Pilot managaed to land the plane in the Azores (I think)|||Yes I saw a doccumentary once about a terrible accident.
The plane hadn't been in the air long when people started feeling pain in the head and eventually fell unconscious.
The pilot and co, were radioing for assistance and they were told to check the item that could have saved them, however it was still overlooked. The plane had been put on autopilot and the airline sent jets to observe it. One crew member survived longer than the rest by using his wits and had taken control of the plane (both pilot and co were unconscious), but as the jets drew close, the steward just looked at them hopelessly and gave a big thumbs down. The plane had now run out of fuel and end of story.
Apparently, when the plane had been given a security check prior to take off, someone had flipped a switch from auto to manual pressurisation. It is not prominently diplayed and not normally adjusted by the pilot. Tragic!|||When my 2 daughters were flying to Alicante from Manchester, last summer, their plane had to make an emergency landing at Heathrow to refuel. It didn't crash but does prove that aircraft do fly when low on fuel.|||Luton Airport started when a Boeing 707,after circling for ages while waiting for fog to lift, hadn't enough fuel left to get to Birmingham,the next nearest 'proper' airport.Heathrow and Gatwick were both fogbound. It came down at Luton,which had a runway for the local flying club and some aviation companies,notably Hawker and Percival(the Percival Provost was an RAF trainer for years), but was an airfield,not an airport.The seats were stripped out to save weight for takeoff on the shortish runway,and sent to Heathrow by road. There were some initial worries but the plane got off again fine. The Borough Council put their heads together,filled in the tip at the west end, expanded the east end,and Luton Airport was born.Oh,Lorraine Case----the fortunes of life eh? You owe that song to some fog.|||yes there was a charter flight coming back from Spain.
The fuel seller had been recycling fuel back tom the bowser, instead of filling the plane.
The pilot landed it in a field.|||The crash that killed 4 of the 7 members of Lynyrd Skynrd was due to the fact that the plane ran out of fuel due to a miscalculation. I'm sure it happens all the time.|||Yesterday?|||It does happen, and more often than it should. Mostly in small private planes, but if the pilot keeps his wits about him and applies what he learned in training for his pilot's license, the aircraft can be landed with minimum damage and no loss of life.
It is when the pilot panics and forgets the cardinal rule of aviation that bad things happen... "No matter what happens, FLY THE AIRPLANE FIRST!"|||On July 23, 1983, Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel in flight and had to glide to an emergency landing. The pilots used the aircraft's ram air turbine to power the aircraft's hydraulic systems for control. There were zero fatalities. This aircraft was nicknamed Gimli Glider. The aircraft (C-GAUN) continued serving Air Canada until its planned retirement in December 2007.
On November 23, 1996, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked, ran out of fuel, and crashed in the Indian Ocean near Comoros. The pilots used the aircraft's ram air turbine as an emergency power source. Of the 175 aboard, 123 died. Still, the incident is one of the few instances of a plane landing on water with survivors.|||http://www.radio.cz/en/article/11116
human error/ machine malfunction|||Ran out of fuel: no passenger airplanes. they usually have nearly double of what they normally need, in case they can't land or suffer delays through bad weather. Even if a plane may be running low on fuel, it can still land at another airport to re-fuel (this is why long-distance flights often have stops inbetween).
Also, if there's the LEAST bit if trouble, the pilot has to land the plane at the nearest airport or turn back to its departure place, whichever is the nearest option. This can be annoying for passengers (I've been in that situation) but better safe than sorry. While there may be 10 flights a week turning back (I don't know exact figures), an actual crash only happens once in a great while, so these security measures do help.
Earlier this year, a plane crashed in Sao Paolo - the airport is located practically in the middle of town, and the aircraft missed the lane and hit a motorway.
However, statistically it's safer to fly an airplane than to drive a car or a bike. The only reason people worry so much is because the media always highlight plane crashes (rare events) more than they do car crashes (daily events, only mentioned if there are people killed). If the news mentioned every car accident in the country, that item alone would last two hours, so they just leave it out. You're more likely to die crossing a street to get to your local corner shop than you are to be in a (even mild) plane crash.|||Two planes crashes I remember very vividly
http://www.fireservice.co.uk/history/tod鈥?/a>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flig鈥?/a>
there have been many more some of which are too distressing even to think about as are the two examples above.
The first cash came down feet away from the staines resevoir near what is now known as Heathrow airport. The other one was thje infamous flight 103 part of the plane came down on the village of Locckerbie whilst the rest landed partially on the dual carriage way between Lockerbie and dumfries|||Planes run out of fuel all the time (not as often as cars do). Most are small general aviation planes.
There have been two notable incidents where airliners ran out of fuel.
One was an Air Canada 767 that ran out of fuel after some miscalculations. It glided to an abandoned airfield and landed intact.
The other was an Air Transat A330 that developed a fuel leak over the Atlantic. The crew kept drawing fuel from the good tanks to balance the fuel load without realizing it was leaking. It managed to glide to the Azores and land intact.
There were no fatalities on either of these flights and the planes are still flying today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glide鈥?/a>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat鈥?/a>|||Yes many of the General Aviation accidents are due to "fuel starvation" %26gt; a bad thing to have happen but it happens some of the airplanes have been safely landed on roadways others in fields or even in the water . You can search the faa aviation data base here http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp#query鈥?/a>
I have heard of planes landing on eachother into homes barns cars water pools and you name it its probably happened.|||Yes, it happens all the time. I was in a light aircraft when we had to perform an emergency landing at Goodwood. No one hurt, thank goodness but it gave me a bit of a fright. Check out this site: http://www.gremline.com/index_files/page鈥?/a>|||the gimli incident was put down to a miscalculations of flue when ordering in metric tonnes (1000kg )
or imperial tons (2240 lbs)
also this made a good film|||--Happens all the time.|||a plane crashed yesterday. it lost all its power and narrowly avoided houses.
have a look at the bbc news report here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/londo鈥?/a>|||| few years ago a Concorde ran out of fuel taxi from the runway at Heathrow. However, it only had 30s of fuel left for flying time, so if it couldn't land for any reason and had to go around....|||yeah seen it on discovery channel,when terrorrists hijacked a plane,they ordered the pilot to fly to australlia but he ran outta the fuel,but the pilot landed the plane on the sea and saved the lives of the passengers...think it was an airline from africa!!|||Yes.|||uh yeah, very common fatal error. idiot pilots cant check their fuel gauges. they "forget" well guess what that lack of planning almost killed them|||You'd be surprised at how often it happens.
One of my favorites is a pilot flying C175, who immediately lost fuel to the engine when he put the tail wheel down on the runway.
Go through the website below and you should be able to find more than you ever wanted to know about bad pilotage.
My personal favorite example of bad ideas is http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id鈥?/a>
I've heard the term "flying united," but it's the only case I've run across of pilots causing their own demise in the process of joining the mile high club.
DGI|||yes, more times than you might think...The most common culprit?...miscalculations by the pilot because fuel is measured in pounds of fuel not gallons...and a calculation error has caused the wrong(not enough) fuel to be pumped into a plane.
Also if you do run out of fuel and safely land your plane, you will have to answer to that, and I've been told the penalties are stiff...and rightfully so...|||Yes to all.
The most famous was when a number of American Air Force Planes on a training sortie in bad weather in the Bermuda triangle, lost their way through a navigation error, they ran out of fuel and were never heard of again.|||I'm sure its happened but not by the pilots ignorance but by faulty gauges.
I have no idea.|||if the plane has no fuel it will go down
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