30 years today since the miracle at Gottröra (Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751) – Even though the airplane broke in three, there were no fatalites

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  4. Fun story about this flight: 1 passager was reported missing from the scene, witnesses reported that they had a seen a man in a suit walking on the field right after the accident. Apparently he took a cab from there (and went on the next flight?). Guess he had a really important meeting that day

  11. I flew from Arlanda about 30 minutes earlier and sat at the wings looking at the defrosting machines defrost them *(just like the accident plane)*.
    The early reports didn’t specify which plane had gone down so when I landed after my short trip I was met by a very relived and shocked relative *(I had no idea what had happened)*.

    *PS! I never bought a lottery ticket that day.*

  14. I watched this like last week on a tv channel, crazy what happened and how the main pilot couldnt go back to piloting.

  20. Looks like they bought the plane from IKEA 😂😂

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  23. I remember this from being between 7 and 8 years old. After hearing about it in the morning parents took us children into car and drove past the summer cabin which is around ~6-8km through the wood from the crash site, not sure about time when we got there but they were driving our vehicles on field and we stood and watched from afar. Only thing I remember my folks and other talked about except the obvious of a plane crash was how fast the painters got out there to cover the airline company logo on the plane.. 20 minutes after looking around we jumped in to the car and when down to the church/Statoil where my grandparent lived and went in for a quick “fika”. Time flies..

  26. I seriously believe Scandinavia has some kind of blessing. No natural disaster, barely any animals/insects that kill, barely any terroritist attacks that kills people, every disaster is basically just to ruin people’s day.

  29. A friend of mine knew some of the firefighters called in to this. Apparently the initial call to their station said something along the lines of “A DC9 has crashed, there are 17 wounded”. Knowing that a DC9 takes about 140 passengers, they steeled themselves en route to prepare for the sight of 140-17 = 123 dead bodies… and had some disorienting moments when they arrived on site and it was full of people walking around.

  31. I actually have a piece (window, 5th from the left) of the wreckage. I’ve always had a fear of flying after hearing about this crash when I was a child. It really was a miracle that no one died given how hopeless the situation was.

    I believe one person was severely hurt and paralyzed for life after the accident.

  36. The *fuselage* broke in three. The plane broke in more pieces, no fewer than four since one of the wings detached.

  38. (1) Even though the (2) airplane (3) broke in (4) three,

    (1) there were (2) no fa-(3)ta-li-(4)ties.

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