{"id":11039978,"date":"2026-08-10T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=11039978"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:57:40","slug":"china-airlines-006-747sp-30000-foot-dive-recovery-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/china-airlines-006-747sp-30000-foot-dive-recovery-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"The 747 That Fell Six Miles and Lived"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><p>A Boeing 747 does not simply fall out of the sky. But on the night of 19 February 1985, over the Pacific, one did &mdash; rolling onto its side and plunging nearly six miles toward the ocean with 274 people aboard. That any of them lived is down to a few desperate seconds of flying at the very end.<\/p><p>This is the story of China Airlines Flight 006, and the 30,000-foot dive that a 747 somehow survived.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;border-radius:8px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px\">Kurzinfo<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px;line-height:1.8\"><li><strong>Flug:<\/strong> China Airlines 006, Taipei to Los Angeles, 19 February 1985<\/li><li><strong>Flugzeug:<\/strong> Boeing 747SP, over the Pacific at 41,000 ft<\/li><li><strong>Ausl\u00f6sen:<\/strong> the No. 4 engine lost power; the crew fixated on it<\/li><li><strong>Der Herbst:<\/strong> the 747 rolled and dived about 30,000 ft in roughly two and a half minutes, pulling up to 5G<\/li><li><strong>Recovery:<\/strong> the captain regained control at 9,500 ft, in cloud<\/li><li><strong>Ergebnis:<\/strong> badly bent airframe, 2 serious injuries - and a safe landing at San Francisco<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">One engine, one fixation<\/h2><p>Flight 006 was cruising at 41,000 feet, roughly 300 miles from the California coast, when the outermost right engine &mdash; number four &mdash; lost power. On its own, an engine failure on a four-engine jet is manageable. But as the crew concentrated on trying to restart it, the autopilot quietly did something dangerous: it held the wings level using aileron and rudder, hiding the growing asymmetry &mdash; right up until it ran out of authority.<\/p><p>When the autopilot could compensate no longer, the 747 rolled hard to the right and dropped its nose. In seconds, one of the largest aircraft in the world was diving almost vertically into cloud.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1863787697  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/china-airlines-747sp-2.jpg\" alt=\"A China Airlines Boeing 747SP\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A China Airlines Boeing 747SP, the shortened long-range variant that flew Flight 006. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DWhZWtDinLg\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Six miles down<\/h2><p>Inside the dive, chaos. Passengers and crew were pinned by g-forces that peaked around 5G &mdash; enough to bend the airframe. In cloud, with the instruments spinning and the ground rushing up unseen, Captain Min-Yuan Ho had no outside horizon to fly by. The aircraft plunged roughly 30,000 feet in about two and a half minutes.<\/p><p>Only as the 747 broke out of the cloud base did the crew finally see the sky, orient themselves, and haul back. The pull-out was so violent it tore parts off the aircraft &mdash; but it worked. The captain leveled off at about 9,500 feet, a few thousand feet above the sea.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=48348038  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/boeing-747sp.jpg\" alt=\"A Boeing 747SP in flight\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The 747SP&rsquo;s stubby profile. Flight 006&rsquo;s aircraft was so overstressed in the pull-out that its wings were left permanently bent. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xW2gaodsfkY\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The damage, and the lesson<\/h2><p>The battered 747 diverted to San Francisco and landed safely. Inspectors were stunned by what had held together: wings visibly bent, large sections of the horizontal stabilizers and elevators gone, landing-gear doors ripped away, hydraulic systems damaged. Twenty-four people were hurt, two seriously. Remarkably, the aircraft was repaired and flying again within two months.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The probable cause of this accident was the captain&rsquo;s preoccupation with an inflight malfunction and his failure to monitor properly the airplane&rsquo;s flight instruments which resulted in his losing control of the airplane.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>U.S. National Transportation Safety Board<\/strong> &mdash; probable-cause finding<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Contributing to the accident was the captain&rsquo;s over-reliance on the autopilot after the loss of thrust on the No. 4 engine.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>U.S. National Transportation Safety Board<\/strong> &mdash; contributing factor<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>Flight 006 became a classic teaching case in what pilots call loss of situational awareness: how a minor malfunction, plus too much trust in automation, can quietly steer a perfectly good aircraft to the edge of catastrophe &mdash; and how, sometimes, raw airmanship in the final seconds is all that stands between a scare and a disaster.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1gotTJlXMQc\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;font-style:italic\">Sources: U.S. National Transportation Safety Board report NTSB\/AAR-86\/03; Wikipedia (China Airlines Flight 006); Admiral Cloudberg; Simple Flying.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">\u00c4hnliche Beitr\u00e4ge<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/british-airways-flug-9-vulkanasche-747-gleitflug-1982\/\">Die Nacht, in der eine 747 alle vier Triebwerke verlor<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/united-232-the-dc-10-that-landed-with-no-hydraulics\/\">United 232: Die DC-10, die ohne Hydraulik landete<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Airlines Flight 006, a Boeing 747, rolled and dived nearly 30,000 feet over the Pacific in 1985 &#8211; and the captain pulled 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