Have fun, don't exaggerate, and feel free to add your own imaginative twists!
In a horrifying / unbelievable / terrifying / dramatic / death defying
midair / runway / airport
drama / near miss / crash landing
a massive Jumbo Airbus / Boeing Superjet / Airbus 747 / Boeing 380 / Dickers DC10
packed with
hundreds / thousands/ nearly a thousand / over a thousand / scores of / nearly a million
passengers / children / families
suffered a failure of all its
6 / 5 / 3
engines / propellers / wings / landing wheels
as it
hurtled down the runway at supersonic speed / plunged thousands of feet / came within inches of another packed Jumbo jet / was strafed by a Russian Mirage jet bomber
towards
the raging shark infested ocean / crocodile infested swamps / hostile mountain range / war torn rebel held area of Syria /
jungle full of vicious man eating giraffes / crowded shopping centre / school playground / orphanage / hospital / polar ice cap
with its
engines / wings / propellers
immobilised / blazing / billowing plumes of toxic smoke / exploding
as the heroic pilot
wrestled with the controls / frantically tried to find the right page in the instruction book / prayed to his maker / shagged a stewardess in the crew rest area / finished off a bottle of whisky / fought off a drunken drug-crazed thug
A passenger,
Vicky Slapper / Kevin Moron / Hilda Smegma / Abu Ali Husain
aged
4 / 16 / 64 / 89
who lives in
Slough / Bracknell / Weybridge / Swindon / Stirling / Lewes
in a
house / flat / council house / mansion / tent / yurt / stately home / abandoned car
worth
£50,000 / £256,000 / £4 million / half of sod all
and has
8 / 12 / 2 / no
children
and who was on
his / her
way back from / way to
The Greek holiday paradise of Majorca on the Adriatic coast / The Spanish island of Rhodes / The Caribbean island of Mauritius / the stag party capital of Poland, Budapest / the Greek occupied disputed territory of North Malta
with a group of
friends / football players / hookers
said
I was praying to God / writing to Allah / saw my life flash before my eyes / trying to phone my mother / I could see the whites of the fighter pilot's eyes as he pulled the bombing trigger / I could read the newspapers that one of the passengers on the other plane was reading
A spokesperson for the airline later said :
"Our aircraft encountered a minor patch of turbulence and a couple of passengers spilled their drinks / due to a crosswind, the landing was slightly harder than normal / due to a runway incursion, the aircraft had to perform a perfectly normal and safe procedure known as a missed approach / had to divert to a nearby airport due to air traffic congestion resulting from earlier bad weather / came within 5 nautical miles and 2,000 feet vertical separation of another civilian aircraft during its approach to a busy international airport."