Comment by ghaff
3 years ago
I've been in a couple situations.
- The main one was that I had a flight from Vancouver to Victoria and the weather was too bad for the helicopter to fly. So we took a prop. On takeoff, some cross-wind hit the plane and we tipped over. My colleague and I who were sitting across from each other thought that was it.
- The other one was my plane was reported crashed when I was visiting my parents for some holiday or other. I got panicked call on drive back from airport.
> On takeoff, some cross-wind hit the plane and we tipped over.
I had a near tip-over coming out of a DIA years ago. DIA gets very windy. We were nearing speed to lift off and a gust of cross wind hit the plane. Looking out the window I thought for sure the wing was going to hit the ground, but in that moment the pilot seemed to shift from a standard take off to something that felt much more vertical. Once we were airborne the flight attendant came by who looked a little shaken and offered me a free drink.