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Watch How These Passengers React After Lightning Sets Their Plane’s Engine on Fire

Jan. 26, 2013 8:59pm Erica Ritz

Even seasoned travelers might blanch at the prospect of a night flight with extreme turbulence after lightning has set the plane’s engine on fire.

But that’s exactly what happened on a Jan. 24 Turkish Airlines flight from Izmir to Istanbul, and one traveler got the entire scene on video.

There were 114 people aboard, the Telegraph writes, when “passengers began to panic…but the pilot quickly activated the motor’s own fire-extinguishing gear, declared an emergency and landed safely.”

Video shows sparks flying from the plane’s engine for roughly 10 seconds before shakily scanning the plane’s impressively calm passengers.

Watch what happens when the lights go out for the final descent, below:

And here’s how the plane’s landing looked from the ground, via YNet News:

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Witness1974
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 11:36am
“Uh, Stewardess, may I have a wet towel and a diaper please?”

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- plastinoid
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 11:55am
  Hahahahaha…………….my thoughts exactly!
  
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G-WHIZ
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 10:01am
At first they thought it was the “red-neck” part of the “featured” barbaque menu.

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SilentRunner
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:46am
The videos are half over by the time I find the volume control, turn it down and then rid the screen of advertisements hiding the picture.

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  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:29am
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- CafeConservative
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:20pm
  Yes, Mozilla + DNT = win.
  
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- BSdetector
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:40am
  Definitely get firefox and install a script blocking addon.
  
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woodyee
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:38am
Overheard from passenger on cellphone –

“Hello? Muhammed? Yeah, it’s me. Look, break out the camera and look up into the sky – see the plane on fire? Yeah – yeah! That’s us! Yeah! Break out the video and get a picture of this, I want the whole family to see how I found my 72 Virgins!”

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woodyee
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:34am
Now, if it were HOLLYWIERD shooting that film…

(My apologies to anyone suffering from Hoplophbia, that might have been horrified to the point of soiling themselves, upon reading my “S” word…)

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:42am
  Too bad the latest Die Hard movie is in the can, or they could have used this.
  
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Imprimatur
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 6:59am
Their other option was to abandon ship.

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SIXFRIGATES
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:45am
Well it’s confirmed. The second video clearly shows that nobody is capable of getting decent video.

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lassiegirldawn
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:49pm
They are so used to suicide bombs that they think there are infidels onboard. That is why they can stay so calm.

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MangoT21
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:03pm
There’s something on the wing!!!!

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- MisterSarcastic
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:18pm
  Come on, Shatner. You’ve played this silly game before.
  
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- msjoe43
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:00pm
  “Twilight Zone” Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1963)
  William Shattner plays a panic stricken man on an airplane. The plot has the Shattner character as a man that’s just recently gotten out of rehab, because he had suffered a mental and nervous breakdown, and getting on a plane will almost certain test his limits. In fact his last breakdown was due to a flight. And boy does his imagination take a turn for the worst when he sees outside on the wing of the plane a furry like creature! This creature stares him in the face! The creature is a gremlin trying to take the plane apart. The gremlin disappears whenever anyone else looks out the window. The big question is it really real, or just a test of imagination, because he’s the only one to see it; and nobody is willing to take his word for it.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:39pm
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dar2HKImK-0
  
  Classic ..
  
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- mastice
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:59am
  Hilarious!
  
  I like Shatner, but I rather liked the version with John Lithgow better. (personal preference is all)
  
  http://youtu.be/s8imklDkUds
  
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stopprintn
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:30pm
Put in my miles, don”t wish to expand that portfolio. And lucky to not have an obligation to do so.

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mrja
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:23pm
i’ve seen this before, it was a gremlin. Drove William Shatner crazy in the twilight zone ;-)

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- mrja
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:35pm
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFbWJJj9uFU
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:40pm
  Here is an even earlier gremlin in action.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Ma3M_C-hY
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:13pm
SENDTHEMETEORS! Literally!

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