A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32

Raymond Babbit would be pleased to hear the passengers landed safely.

Very lucky they had that mastermind crew. The facts they had to keep within 3 knots of an ideal landing speed indicates how hard this was to get out of. They landed 150m from end of runway (perfect for the scenario). Amazing.

Reading articles and seeing videos about airline disasters tends to increase my faith in flying rather than making me more afraid of it. Terrorism or sabotage aside, so many failures have to compound to put a modern airliner in a truly irrecoverable state that it's effectively impossible to happen and not worth my time to even worry about. What times we live in that we can hurtle ourselves across oceans at hundreds of miles per hour and be in substantially no more danger than we would be walking down a sidewalk in our home town (in before HN commenters reply with information about all the dangers associated with sidewalks).

there are some crazy talented pilots out there who are able to perform under massive amounts of pressure, United Flight 232 is a more extreme version of this article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232

>Despite the fatalities, the accident is considered a good example of successful crew resource management. A majority of those aboard survived; experienced test pilots in simulators were unable to reproduce a survivable landing. It has been termed "The Impossible Landing" as it is considered one of the most impressive landings ever performed in the history of aviation

plane lost all hydraulics and had to be steered and crash landed using only the engines

An amazing recovery, there's even an Air Crash Investigations episode about it:

https://imdb.com/title/tt3234896/