7 Airplane Crashes Thwarted by Awesome Pilots
| June 4, 2015
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Loganair Saab 2000, Scotland
After being struck by lightning, this Saab 2000 plunged nose first at speeds of 9500 feet per minute. The pilots only had twenty seconds to wrestle with the plane and get it to rise again. At first it seemed in vain – the plane would not right itself and the autopilot seemed to be offline, but with only 1100 feet left, the pilots were able to take manual control and bring the plane back to normal flight. Talk about a close call.
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