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Most unusual aircraft landings

Sometimes airplanes and choppers land in a way they’re not supposed to. Fortunately in these cases, the pilots and co passengers lived to tell the tale.

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Most unusual aircraft landings

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  1. 22: A Saha Airlines Boeing 707 is seen where it finished its skid after careering off the runway at Tehran Mehrabad Airport April 22, 2005 in Tehran, Iran. According to Iranian state-run television the plane, carrying 157 passengers had difficulties whilst coming in to land which stopped its landing gear from opening. The plane then skidded off the runway and into a river before catching fire, where the emergency exit slides then failed to open. Passengers attempted to jump from the plane to avoid the flames but a young boy died when he jumped into the river. Several other passengers were taken to hospital with injuries sustained whilst escaping. (Photo by Majid/Getty Images)

  2. A handout photo provided by Russian news agency Agentstvo-Novostei TV2 and taken on July 11, 2011 shows the wreck of Antonov-24 passenger plane, floating on the Ob River in Siberia shortly after the plane2019s emergency landing. The plane belonging to the Angara airline was forced to make an emergency landing on the Ob River in Siberia on July 11, killing at least five people, officials said. The regional airline said on its website that the plane's left engine caught fire, forcing it to make the emergency landing. The company confirmed that there were 33 passengers on board and four crew. AFP PHOTO / AGENTSTVO-NOVOSTEI TV2 / HO

  3. A Falcon Grand Air cargo jet sits amid the tombstones of Mt. Olivet Cemetery after skidding off the runway at Detroit City Airport during an emergency landing August 28, 2001 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

  4. Navy officers and firemen work in the rescue of a private aircraft of aerial company Ocean Air which fell on Guanabara Bay upon landing at Santos Dumond airport on August 12, 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Three passengers have been rescued and are well. (Photo by Wagner Meier/FotoArena/LatinContent/Getty Images)

  5. Emergency services attend to the scene of a Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane which crashed on landing at Schiphol airport on February 25, 2009 in Haarlem The Netherlands. All of the 135 passengers on board the flight from Istanbul are reported to have survived. The plane broke into three pieces as it crash landed short of the runway. (Photo by Paul Vreeker/Getty Images)

  6. NEW YORK - JANUARY 15: Rescue boats float next to a US Airways plane floating in the water after crashing into the Hudson River in the afternoon on January 15, 2008 in New York City. The Airbus 320 flight 1549 crashed shortly after take-off from LaGuardia Airport heading to Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

  7. A China Airlines aircraft Boeing 737 lies in ruins at Naha Airport August 20, 2007 in Okinawa, Japan. The aircraft's left engine exploded after landing following it's flight from Taiwan. Despite the resultant fire destroying the plane all 165 people on board escaped safely. (Photo by Getty Images)

  8. Firemen use a crane to rescue a private aircraft of aerial company Ocean Air which fell down on Guanabara Bay upon landing at Santos Dumond airport on August 12, 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Three passengers have been rescued and are well. (Photo by Wagner Meier/FotoArena/LatinContent/Getty Images)

  9. Picture taken 29 October 2007 shows the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed into a tanker as it was attempting an emergency landing at Rudskogen near Rakkestad, southeastern Norway, 29 October. A private helicopter with three people on board crashed into an oil lorry in southeastern Norway 29 October, narrowly avoiding disaster as it rammed the cabin and not the full tank, police said. No one was injured in the accident, which occurred as the pilot was trying to carry out an emergency landing.AFP PHOTO / Hakon Mosvold Larsen / Scanpix Norway

  10. A helicopter lands on the Tiradentes Avenue, after being forced to do so due to the heavy rain, on December 14, 2010 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There weren't casualties. (Photo by Nelson Antoine / FotoArena / LatinContent / Getty Images)

  11. An Indian firefighter looks on near a Schweizer helicopter that made an emergency landing on the rooftop of a residential building in Bangalore on April 12, 2012. A trainee helicopter pilot made an emergency landing on the rooftop of an apartment building in a busy residential district in southern India on Thursday after developing engine trouble. AFP PHOTO/STR

  12. A photo taken by a local resident, shows the wreckage of a helicopter next to the wall of the compound where according to officials, Osama bin Laden wss shot and killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Monday, May 2, 2011. Bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was slain in his luxury hideout in Pakistan early Monday.

  13. A Peruvian Navy helicopter which was transporting humanitarian aid for the victims of the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that rocked Peru on Wednesday, is seen on the roof of an uninhabited deposit in Ica, more than 400 km south of Lima, 17 August 2007, after it's pilot made an emergency landing. The pilot looked for the safest place possible to attempt a landing, after the chopper apparently lost height. None of the seven crew members were seriously hurt. AFP PHOTO/JAIME RAZURI

  14. Police and fire department personnel, including Hindustan Aeronautics Limited officials, gather near a Schweizer helicopter that made an emergency landing on the rooftop of a residential building in Bangalore on April 12, 2012. A trainee helicopter pilot made an emergency landing on the rooftop of an apartment building in a busy residential district in southern India on Thursday after developing engine trouble. AFP PHOTO/STR

  15. A crane lifts the helicopter of the yacht "Octopus", of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, from Ushuaia Bay in southern Argentina, on January 31, 2011 after it was forced to carry out an emergency landing on the bay. No injuries were reported among its passengers, Navy officials said. AFP PHOTO/SELKNAM USH

  16. The scene where a helicopter crashed while installing a large Christmas Tree at the Viaduct Harbour on November 23, 2011 in Auckland, New Zealand. The pilot was seen leaving the scene and there are no reports of injuries. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

  17. A Piper PA 28 private airplane crashed into a tree in the Fisksjo park in central Stockholm, Sweden, when attempting an emergency landing after engine trouble, 12 April 2007. One of the four people onboard the plane was seriously injured. A large rescue crew was in place minutes after the crash landing due to an emergency drill near by. AFP PHOTO - SCANPIX / Claudio Bresciani

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