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> I rather doubt there are any examples of an off airport landing of a 737 without significant damage to the aircraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110




Well, I stand corrected. That's both surprising and an incredible feat of airmanship by the pilots!

Since I love reading about these kinds of incidents and the best way to solve a problem is to claim it's impossible, I amend my claim to "I rather doubt there are two examples of an off airport landing of a 737 without significant damage to the aircraft." :)


The famous Gimli Glider wasn't badly damaged either, although it was a 767!


Looks like they had about 5000ft to work with. Not great, but not bad either.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/30%C2%B001'52.7%22N+89%C2%...




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