By means of a miracle, a helicopter pilot managed to save the lives of three passengers when the aircraft’s engine cut out.

On February 27, a helicopter carrying three passengers and a pilot crashed onto Honopu Beach, Hawaii.

Footage of the ordeal shows the pilot flying over some of the island’s stunning landscape when all of a sudden you hear the engine cut out.

There isn’t any audio of what the passengers and pilot were saying, but the pilot appears to remain calm in the undeniably stressful ordeal.

The helicopter appeared to be heading straight towards the ocean when the pilot manages to swing the aircraft round to the nearby beach so that they could crash land.

The last thing you see in the clip is the helicopter about to hit the beach.

While it could have ended in tragedy, all four of them survived the ordeal.

Making it even more miraculous, there were reports of just one person sustaining injuries.

One of the passengers injured their back and went on to be airlifted to Princeville Airport, where paramedics from American Medical Response awaited.

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Jack Harter Helicopters are said to be the company who owned the helicopter in question. It prides itself on offering doors-off chopper rides around Hawaii.

“Capture epic moments and embrace the thrill of a doors-off helicopter around Kaua’i on our full hour tour,” its website says of the excursion. “Fly over waterfalls, canyons, cliffs, beaches, and more.”

One seat on the helicopter will get set you back $324.

The firm sent another helicopter to pick up the remaining three people once the injured individual was airlifted away last week.

Jack Harter Helicopters said that the pilot and other two passengers did not report any injuries.

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The County of Kaua’i posted about the ordeal online, and people were quick to applaud the pilot.

One person wrote “Great Job Pilot!!!”

“Applaud the pilot for safely handling this unfortunate situation,” echoed another.

“Well I’d be happy with that pilot,” a third went on.

Others voiced their relief that no one died in the crash.

“Thank goodness only 1 injured it could’ve been worse,” someone penned. “Hope for a speedy recovery for the injured person.”

Another wrote: “Glad everyone is alive. Nothing in the story about the clean-up a can’t imagine it will be easy.”

An update on the injured passenger’s condition hasn’t been given.

Traveling by plane is meant to be one of the safest forms of transport, but over 80 passengers faced a horrifying situation after a pilot made a deadly bet.

There have been several largely known plane crashes that have happened in the last couple of decades, but none of them involved a pilot making a bet without their passengers’ lives in mind.

Sadly, this is something that happened at the Kurumoch Airport in Samara, Russia – formerly known as Kuybyshev during Soviet rule.

It was on October 20, 1986, that the Tu-134A flight left its station at the Koltsovo Airport in Yekaterinburg, which was heading for Grozny.

Aeroflot Flight 6502 was traveling as planned to Samara (Wikimedia Commons)

With a planned stopover at Samara, the flight would have only taken two hours and 30 minutes before passengers would then board the second flight to their planned destination.

With 87 passengers on board and seven crew members, Aeroflot Flight 6502 was traveling as planned to Samara, where pilot in command Alexander Kliuyev, co-pilot Gennady Zhirnov, navigating officer Ivan Mokhonko, flight engineer Kyuri Khamzatov, and three flight attendants were all on board to ensure its safety.

But something went very wrong inside of the cockpit which left 70 people dead and 24 traumatized by the experience.

As it turned out, Captain Kliuyev believed that he could pull off a stunt like no other, which would see him navigate the passenger plane without looking out of the window or using vital navigation screens.

While approaching Kurumoch Airport, he decided to make a bet with First Officer Zhirnov and stated that he could pull off an instrument-only approach. This would mean that all of the windows in the cockpit would have the curtains pulled down, leaving him completely unable to see the ground, and he’d only have to rely on the very basic navigation tools inside of the cockpit as support.

The accident was the worst Russian airline Aeroflot has ever seen (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

While some may think that this is something normal in the piloting world to consider doing, it’s actually completely mad, and is not something that would be pulled off successfully (unless it’s a miracle).

Unfortunately, the captain still went ahead with his reckless plan after it was accepted by his other pilot, and made several blunders as he traveled his path.

Not only had he ignored the ground-proximity warning at an altitude of 62–65 metres, he also dismissed a suggested go-around alert which would have allowed him to correct his trajectory.

This would prove to be fatal mistakes.

When the aircraft touched down on the runway, it was traveling at a speed of 150 knots (170 mph) and overran the runway, leading to the plane traveling off the runway and onto the terrain.

The hard landing caused damage to the plane, flipping it upside down before it was able to come to a complete halt belly up. Due to the speed, flip and awful bet made, 63 people died at the scene and seven more died later in hospital.

Captain Kliuyev made a terrible bet (Wikimedia Commons)

Thankfully, all 14 children on board lived, but they had to live with the trauma of the plane accident forever.

First Commander Zhirnov, who agreed to the insane bet, died while trying to save the lives of his passengers as he went into cardiac arrest while on the way to the hospital.

Captain Kliuyev, however, left the plane unscathed after being responsible for the deaths of most of his passengers and some of his crew.

Subsequently, he was prosecuted and sentenced to 15 years in prison, which was then reduced to six years served.

The instrument-only approach was the worst plane crash for Aeroflot, as there was another crash caused by a pilot letting his 15-year old son steer the plane in 1994, killing 75.

Gut-wrenching footage filmed on 9/11 caught the moment a plane full of passengers learned about the terror attacks.

Many young people growing up now are familiar with 9/11 as a part of history, but there are millions of people who are able to recall exactly where they were and what they were doing when they learned that multiple planes had been hijacked on September 11, 2001.

One video forever captured that moment in time, showing dozens of people on another plane listening to the crew as they described the events that had unfolded.

See the harrowing footage below:

The clip, which has been credited to Frank Pizzo, has resurfaced on Twitter ahead of the upcoming 23rd anniversary of the attacks.

Speaking over the plane’s intercom, the crew member attempted to stay calm as they informed the passengers of the attacks, having learned about them by an outside source.

It would be natural to assume that such horrendous news would elicit screams or cries from the passengers, but the video instead shows an eerie silence fall over the cabin, with only the occasional murmur of shock as the events were relayed.

Passengers reacted to the horrific news. (Frank Pizzo/CTTV)

Some passengers put their faces into their hands in shock, and one woman appeared to break down in tears as she spoke to someone on the phone.

Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks in which the hijackers took control of four planes.

Two of them were crashed into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon. The fourth hijacking, Flight 93, failed after passengers revolted onboard, forcing the terrorists to crash the plane in Somerset County, Pennsylvania instead of its intended target of Washington DC.

In the wake of the attacks, the entirety of US airspace was grounded for civilian flights, meaning around 5,000 aircraft had to be landed in around two hours.

It’s nearly been 23 years since the attack. (Fabina Sbina/ Hugh Zareasky/Getty Images)

The attacks were later found to have been carried out by Al-Qaeda; the terrorist organisation founded and led by Osama bin Laden.

Al-Qaeda carried out the 9/11 attacks as part of a strategy to challenge US foreign policy, and in their aftermath the US and its allies began the war in Afghanistan which would ultimately continue until 2021.

The resurfacing of the footage has prompted other people to share their memories of where they were when the attacks took place, with one person responding: “I was a sophomore on [high school] and they sent us home from school.

“I lived a mile from the beach in S. Fl. and drove down A1A to see naval ships and aircraft as far as the eyes could see up and down the coast. Absolutely surreal.”

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A black box recording revealed the horrifying moment an aircraft lost control and crashed after a pilot allowed their kids in the cockpit.

In March 1994, relief pilot Yaroslav Vladimirovich Kudrinsky was one of three pilots on a flight traveling from Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia, to Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, China.

However, it wasn’t just the three pilots who ended up in the cockpit, but Yaroslav’s two children too.

The Russian airline Aeroflot – Flight 593 – had 63 passengers, nine flight attendants, and three pilots on board.

Two of those on board the flight were Yaroslav’s two teenage children – 12-year-old Yana and 16-year-old Eldar.

The pair ended up coming inside the cockpit to visit their dad, who then decided to let them play with the aircraft’s controls while the plane was on autopilot.

The family’s interaction was caught on audio recording by the plane’s black box, with Yana being heard complaining to her dad, before he tells her: “Don’t run there, or they’ll fire us.”

Despite autopilot being turned on, meaning the plane couldn’t be controlled by the children, when it was Eldar’s go to have a play, he ended up switching off autopilot for around 30 seconds, having pushed the controls too hard.

In this time, the teenager ended up in control of the aircraft’s movements which would lead to a catastrophic tragedy.

Aeroflot is a Russian airline. (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

When the plane started to veer right and exit the flight path, Eldar realised something was wrong.

Within seconds, the three pilots on board noticed too, but by that point, the aircraft had already swerved at almost a 90-degree angle – a move that the Airbus A310 aircraft can’t handle.

The plane started to descend rapidly, before stalling and automatically switching into a dive to recover itself.

Eventually, the pilots managed to regain control and pull the plane out of the dive but misjudged the force, causing the aircraft to stall again.

“Go to the back! Go to the back, Eldar!” Yaroslav can be heard yelling as the pilots lose control. “You see the danger, don’t you?”

As all three pilots try desperately to adjust the mistake and get the aircraft back on track, with Yaroslav telling his kids: “Get out now! All is normal.”

Yaroslav Vladimirovich Kudrinsky allowed his children to play with the plane’s controls (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

That’s when the recording suddenly cuts out.

The pilots managed to recover the spinning aircraft, but by that point, it had lost too much altitude and crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range, tragically killing everyone onboard.

After the crash, investigations found no evidence of technical failure, and that the crash was most likely caused by the children being allowed to take control of the flight.

Perhaps the saddest discovery made was that if the three pilots onboard had left the recovery up to the autopilot, rather than attempting to fix the problem manually, the issue would have resolved itself and all the passengers would have survived.

An Aeroflot spokesperson said at the time that it had tightened cockpit discipline following the incident.