[katana]

Once traveling at night from Buenos Aires to Santiago, Chile the plane went from a pleasant high pressure system on the Atlantic side of the Andes to a big storm on the Pacific side. The plane nose dived for about a minute, me knowing we were crossing over the highest mountain range in the western hemisphere.

I can understand someone's heart rate spiking as they assume they're experiencing their last few seconds. I certainly did.

[dfwgator]

Once traveling at night from Buenos Aires to Santiago, Chile the plane went from a pleasant high pressure system on the Atlantic side of the Andes to a big storm on the Pacific side. The plane nose dived for about a minute, me knowing we were crossing over the highest mountain range in the western hemisphere.

I would have flashbacks of the crash scene in "Alive".

[43north]

I was attending to a severely injured patient in a Lear 25 (aka a rocket sled with wings) on approach to Anchorage, AK during a March “wind event” (125 kt SE crosswinds). We hit a severe downdraft and everything went weightless. I muttered an epithet to myself and jerked my seatbelt as tight as it could go just in time for another even more violent downdraft. The pilot (God bless him) put the plane into a steep dive. When we leveled out I could see whitecaps on Turnagain Arm out the window. He actually had to climb the plane to land on the runway. I will never forget that flight. March 31, 1980, the 4th Full Moon of that year.