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Editor: James T. Crouse
Profession: Aviation Accident Attorney

It's a site one neither expects to see nor wants to see when seated by the window of your airplane and looking out at the wondrous view as your plane climbs to the sky - you see the engine falling off your plane. Well, that's exactly what happened to a businesswoman seated on a domestic airline in South Africa bound for Johannesburg. She heard a loud bang and the passenger seated next to her told her, "That's our engine that's just fallen off". The passenger said the passengers and crew remained calm even though the plane started to shake a little bit and she was further calmed when her seat mate explained the plane could fly with one engine - and that's exactly what it did as the it flew around to dump fuel before making a smooth landing.

When the plane landed safely, the pilot walked into the cabin and all 100+ passengers on board cheered. There were no injuries.