The Pilot of this Faulty Plane Made a Selfless Call That Saved Lives 🛩 Air Disasters | Smithsonian

January 31, 2000: After a terrifying, inexplicable minute-long plunge that saw the crew barely manage to regain control, the pilot of Flight 261 radioed a request to be routed out over the Pacific Ocean. It turned out to be a heroic decision: if the plane had crashed over land, countless people on the ground would have been killed.

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