What are the odds of a aeroplanes wing falling off?

Question

What are the odds of a aeroplanes wing falling off?

Answer 1

huh? you're afraid on that but anyway that is true actually before i was afraid of that the wing will fall of the  fuselage  since as w all know it bends whenever threes a turbulence or during take off (if you're in a large aircraft it is obvious i hope you sit on a window seat :) ) but it does not fall off since that's the nature anyway the of odd thing is you'll just die when it crashes on the ground and a 50 to 90% Chance of surviving when in the water just for a low altitude but high alts, i doubt you'll live

Answer 2

lets put it this way, a 747 has to travel around 600knotts and try to pull up before it loses its wings... chances of that happening, pretty much zero unless you know a way to get a plane that big to 400k feet to use gravity to help the freefall speed. so it's not gonna happen in reality.

good luck

Answer 3

Commercial Aircraft are designed for plus (down) to minus (UP)  3.50 G's without any damage at ALL.  Don't worry about it...

Worry about hitting something else in the air that's not where it's supposed to be..............

Answer 4

as with anything it is possible would I loose sleep over it naw.  I just remember this cheery little thought when the first A bomb was set off during the war they figured that there was a 1 in a million chance that the earth's atmosphire would catch fire and burn off.  If it is possible it will happen it is only a matter of time but then it is nothing to loose sleep over either

Answer 5

In 2002, a C-130 Hercules air tanker (fire fighting) lost its wing and crashed.

http://www.iasa.com.au/folders/Safety_Is...

This is an extremely rare event.

It has never happened with a civil transport airplane.

Answer 6

It WILL HAPPEN if YOU are on board!

Answer 7

like 1 in billion...

haha that wont happen)

Answer 8

Not very much. I once saw a story and video of a king air that lost pressure at 27,000 feet because the front window spidered.  The pilots lost consciousness and plummeted to 7,000 feet before they woke up. They recovered the aircraft and made an emergency landing. The left wing was bent really bad and they lost one of their vertical stabilizers, but it had retained enough lift and control to land safely. I'm still amazed every time I see the video. It's on youtube.

Answer 9

mm, yes, like, go buy a lottery ticket, your chances are better...I agree

Answer 10

You'd literally stand a better chance of winning the national lottery!

Bits do fall off aircraft, and one or two have experienced explosive decompression,  the DeHaveland Comet, for instance, because of stress fractures (metal fatigue) in the the square corners of the windows windows.  That's why all aeroplanes have windows with rounded corners today. But not wings just falling off, it just doesn't happen.

Engines have fallen off from McDonnell Douglas DC10's about twenty years ago, causing fatal crashes, but that was traced back to poor maintenance methods, and was cured.

Answer 11

I would say no. A wing will not just fall off, now if it hits something then yes it can fall off

Answer 12

Slim I hope.

Answer 13

If you're not in an air battle or a thunderstorm, the odds are

inconceivably slim.  In a thunderstorm, if you've whacked your head on the ceiling more than twice THEN be concerned.

Answer 14

it depends if partially or completely.

completely, ZERO. the wings are connected through the fuselage with strong crossbars and etc.

partially, it can happen if it hits something such as the ground. ( a bird, no)

but it won't "just fall off in flight or something"

even in the most severe of turbulence, the wings will not "fall off" because they are flexible. if they were rigid, then turbulence can, effectively, snap them off.

Answer 15

None , I doubt that has ever happened in flight.

Answer 16

This video will make you feel better:

http://www.buzzhumor.com/videos/7668/Boe...

Answer 17

It is slim to none but is has happened on severl occassion that I am aware of.  Several years ago a tanker fighting fires in Ca lost its wings as it attempted to pull up.  The other was a local private aircraft.  If you go to the sites  for Airbus and boeing you can watch video of the stress test of the wings they literally pull them up until the tips almost touch.  The flexing that occurs in turbulence is nothing in comparison.

Answer 18

the odds of something like a plane going down are like a million to 1! i dont think u should be worrying about tht

Answer 19

If an aircraft is over stressed it can happen but the kind of level required would rarely if ever be applied to a civil aircraft.

There is a remarkable true story of  an American fighter aircraft that lost a wing and it not only continued to fly it also landed safely. I'm not certain of the type but I think it was an F18.

The buzzhumor video mentioned above shows the wing spar test on the Boeing 777, the wing tip had been pulled upward 18 feet before the spar finally failed, in real life this level of deflection simply would not happen.

Answer 20

Very good chance if it is extra windy.