According to the Sun reported on the 17th, a budget airline passenger plane nearly fell into the sea at nearly 480 kilometers per hour after taking off from an Italian resort island. The pilot on board was asked to submit a detailed report explaining the thrilling experience.
Arab Airlines plane crashes into water: Shutterstock
This Air Arabia flight, only 11 seconds after taking off at Catania Airport in Sicily, suddenly plunged sharply and almost rushed into the Mediterranean Sea.
According to flight data, the Airbus A320 once dropped to only about 200 feet (about 60 meters) above the sea, and then miraculously pulled back and regained altitude.
After this frightening danger, the plane successfully continued its flight to the Jordanian capital, Amman, without any abnormalities.
It is unclear what caused the aircraft to have such a dangerous flight trajectory.The data showed that the aircraft was also clearly too fast at the time.
The flight just departed from Catania Airport in Sicily. image source: Getty
Italy's National Flight Safety Agency (ANSV) characterized the incident as a "serious accident" and has launched an investigation.
Although the plane did not carry passengers at the time, there were two pilots and four flight attendants on board.
According to Corriere della Sera, shortly after the plane took off, the cockpit alarm sounded and the system issued a "Pull Up" warning.
The warning comes from the "Ground Proximity Warning System", which is used to warn the pilot of the plane too close to the ground and there is a risk of collision.
It is that the local weather was good at the time, excluding bad weather factors.
ANSV said that the crew quickly responded after identifying the risk and successfully resolved the danger, and the aircraft landed safely after about three hours.
Investigators will ask the two pilots to describe the incident in detail and compare it with data recorded by the aircraft carrier system.
Preliminary analysis suggests that the cause may include an error in the calculation of the take-off weight or a pilot’s operating error.
Only a few days later, another incident called "one of the most thrilling collisions in history" happened:
When an EasyJet passenger plane took off at the French airport, it crashed into a landing aircraft, only about 3 meters away!
According to the report, when an Airbus of Tunisian Singapore Airlines (Nouvelair) was preparing to land at Nice Côte d 'Azur Airport, it mistakenly admitted the runway and faced the EasyJet flight preparing to take off.
The Tunisian crew urgently pushed the accelerator full, forcibly pulled it up, and avoided danger at a speed of about 170 miles per hour (about 273 kilometers), narrowly avoiding the collision.
The two aircraft, at a recent distance of just 10 feet (about 3 meters), have been described by the aviation industry as “one of the nearest disaster moments in history.”
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