On: Videos show US Air crash-landing

[delano]

There was also Air Transat flight 236 that landed in the Azores: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236

Do you remember what air line was involved in the South American incident?

[DanielBMarkham → delano]

There's a wiki page, but this discussion page is better

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...

The pilots requested permission to fly the plane off the levee (!) but were denied.

There's a whole series of interesting power-out landings, including the DC-9 at Sioux City. A recap would be a good idea for a blog post for someone....