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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHappy End: Photos of Miraculous Airplane Crashes where All the Passengers Survived

Dancing on Thin Ice, Happy End #9.1, Canada, 2012 / Bristol freighter broke through ice while landing in 1956, all survived.

The Scenic Route to Nowhere, Happy End #3.1, Mexico, 2010 / Grumman Albatross, no official report as used for drug trafficking, locals say all survived.

Passion is Rebel to Reason, Happy End #4.1, West Sahara, 2011 / Avro Shackleton Pelican, 25y SAAF, forced landing on flight to UK, all 19 saved by Polisario Rebels in July of 1994.
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Happy End: Photos of Miraculous Airplane Crashes where All the Passengers Survived (Original Post)
n2doc
Apr 2013
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An NTSB Chairman said people were always asking him "Where's the safest place to sit in a plane?"
pinboy3niner
Apr 2013
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mercymechap
(579 posts)1. I bet it was still a scary ordeal
for all on board! Yikes
liberal N proud
(61,178 posts)2. Most look like vintage aircraft and some of the crashes more recent.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)3. An NTSB Chairman said people were always asking him "Where's the safest place to sit in a plane?"
He always jokingly replied that he likes to sit near the tail because he never heard of a plane backing into a mountain.
