Approaching midnight on June 28, 1998, a United Airlines Boeing 747-400 lost one of its engines shortly after lifting off from San Francisco International Airport. While recovering from the engine failure, the jumbo jet came within 100 feet of crashing into San Bruno Mountain and nearly stalled. It was approaching San Bruno Mountain so closely that air traffic control radars briefly stopped detecting the aircraft for 15 seconds, igniting controller fears that the aircraft had crashed. The aircraft was vectored … Continue reading Miracle On United B747-400 – How Pilots Narrowly Avoided Crashing Into a Mountain?