How about being on one after an accident. I flew on N4724U (originally N4713U), the United 747-100 that had the cargo door incident off HNL in 1989, about five years later. I was even in one of the right side C-class seats.

I was on this plane a month before it disappeared. The plane left 6 hours late due to equipment problems (issue closing the rear door). At one point economy passengers started to riot and armed security people came on board.

Arriving late into Beijing I missed my American flight in first class and had to settle for United business. Although we landed at ORD, the airport was shut down due to temperature (-17 F) and snow. Not the best way to end a trip.

just read thru my logbook ... N4713U was the first UA 747 that I flew on, way back in Sep 1977

I've also logged a couple of flights upon N4713U. I didn't list it because it wasn't doomed. Indeed, it was reregistered as N4724U in 1989, sold to Air Dabia (Gambia - reg. C5-FBS) in 1997 and when last seen had been withdrawn from use and stored Plattsburg, NY in 1999. It has since been scrapped.

My father was a United Airlines pilot, and had previously piloted both aircraft that were involved in 9/11...chilling

I was on Aloha N73711 a few weeks before it got turned into a convertible. I remember remarking at the fact that my seatback tray was duck taped shut.

Referring to MH370 are you talking about the route KUL-PEK or the aircraft 9M-MRO/MSN 28420/LN 404?

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I had flown N963AS, the Alaska MD that went down into the Pacific on 31 January 2000 as AS261, a few months before the accident.

There's a good chance I was aboard one or the other of the lost MH772s. I don't have the regs filed but I flew several of them a few years ago and MH only had about 14-15 of the type.

PanAm Clipper of the Sea...summer before Lockerbie

Not even close to a doomed plane, but I remember flying on this plane (name Canyon Blue visible during boarding) after it was repaired after this incident:

Not doomed, but I flew on QF's first A380, VH-OQA, when she was only about a month old. Almost two years later to the date, she nearly crashed operating QF32 after an uncontained engine failure.

Feb 1996-I flew TWA flight 800 from JFK to CDG. Five months later, we all know what happened.

I was a loadmaster on an ATL.98 Carvair on which I had been working average 15-16 hour days. One afternoon we cleared 5,000ft flying east out of Nelson New Zealand. I was in a recliner seat in the hump behind the cockpit when the co-pilot jumped up with a spanner from his seat and came back.

He dived behind the seat I was in and I looked over my shoulder to a spaghetti junction of hydraulic pipes and saw some sort of red, or pink fluid oozing and spraying out.

I exchanged a couple of words with the co-pilot. As I was a student pilot I instantly understood the implications of losing hydraulic fluid was that we might not get the gear down at Wellington.

Next thing I remembered was waking up on finals for Runway 34 at Wellington. Nobody had briefed me what was going on. I was simply so tired I flaked out. I wanted to know what was going on so I got out of the crew seats and moved forward to take the jump seat behind the console pedestal. I saw the big flap selector like a handbrake was down and the wheels selector with a miniature grey wheel on the end of a lever was in the down position. We were down to about 1,500ft on long finals and the atmosphere was intense.

I did not want to distract anybody so I said nothing until after we rolled out. Except for a cockpit fire prior to take off on a rainy night, the hydraulics emergency was my one and only experience and I happened to sleep through it. Kinda embarrassing actually.

ZK-NWA eventually ended up with Brooks Fuel in Canada where she was immaculately restored then trashed on undershooting a short bush strip. The only Carvairs left now are one in USA and another near Johannesburg (former ZK-NWB). RIP Carvair.

I had flown HL7742 (Asiana) a handful of times including twice on the same doomed route. ICN-SFO

Scary, since that jack screw could have failed at any time.