Jennifer Lawrence was in the passenger seat of a scary situation on Saturday. The 26-year-old actress, who was in Louisville, Kentucky visiting with family, experienced a harrowing flight on a private plane.
According to E! News, during the flight, which was headed for New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport, one of the plane’s engines failed at 31,000 feet. The pilots were forced to perform an emergency landing and arrived safely in Buffalo, New York. And, if being forced to make an emergency landing wasn’t scary enough, the jet’s second engine failed during the landing. Thankfully, no one was injured.
A spokeswoman for the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) told the Buffalo News that the jet, a Beechcraft 400 Beechjet, was diverted to the airport Saturday afternoon. She went on to say that two passengers and crew members were on board the plane, but did not say that Lawrence was among them. The FAA is currently investigating the cause of the engine failure.
What is it with celebrities and private planes? Ever since “the day the music died”, when Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash, there have been so many other entertainers who lost their lives in small plane crashes. I mean, Jim Croce, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Otis Redding, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Aaliyah…the list goes on. Commercial air travel sucks, but if I were famous, I’d definitely opt for a big plane. Glad everyone’s okay.
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Glad everyone is OK. We don’t need another Flight 3407.
Flying is safer than driving by a long shot. Statistically. Even tiny and/or private planes. I still have a phobia of flying but phobias aren’t logical haha
Yeah I’d be flying commercial.
Also those pictures really illustrate that she can’t dress herself.
Really. The story illustrates how precious life is and how easily it could end…..for any of us and you choose to do a fashion review. Wow. Just another manic Monday.
I have several family members who are commercial pilots. I will only fly commercial on one of the major airlines. Too many scary stories about the budget airlines.
Pray do tell! My brother in law is a pilot on a big european airline but he never tells scary stories.
Soj- stories about the airlines keeping costs down by underfueling, scary low margins when landing, a few pilots with drinking problems, pilots not getting enough rest between flights. The young ones that work for budget airlines or regional carriers make almost nothing and sleep in crash pads and fly piece of crap planes like the dash 8 / q400.
They all seem super stressed, angry, and stretched thin. But once they move up and make the big bucks things get better, maybe? They’re all crazy if you ask me.
It does seem like there are a lot of small plane incidents in general, not just with celebrities.
Glad they landed safely and everyone is OK .
John Denver is another; he was flying his own plane when it crashed in CA.
Yeah it’s small planes that are the issue. The owner is the pilot (or the pilot is a casual flyer) in a lot of cases too, so whether it’s that they are letting maintenance go or just don’t have the flying experience to handle problems a lot of them die. JFK Jr for example.
Yea small planes are a no go for me. When my brother was learning to fly I flew with him twice and that was it.
Anyways glad everyone’s okay but she should fly commercial. Esp since she is always worried about plane crashes (she’s said so in interviews) so she was probably freaked out.
Man, that stinks that it’s a fear of hers and that happened. But my Dad was always really afraid of flying until his plane had to make a scary emergency landing (he even said good-bye to my Mom), and after that, he was never afraid again. He just accepted the fact that so much is out of his control, and that he goes when he goes.
That’s amazing fortitude. I think some people would be that way and others would retreat. Just depends.
I’m glad your dad was okay though
I’ve flown in some tiny planes (not private, mind) and it can be harrowing. I was in Africa a few years ago and took a short internal flight and the plane was SO small…I mean, there were four seats, two for us passengers, one for the pilot and one for the copilot. I’m not a nervous flier but even I was like “what, what? Where’s the rest of it?” That said, after the third or fourth flight, I was fine.
I think that there maybe aren’t that many incidents of crashes or accidents with private jets but just that we hear about it because when it does happen, it often ends badly.
Geez your story just reminded me of the 4 person plane we flew in to get to the safari camp we stayed at in africa. That thing was TINY. I was definitely afraid on that flight too
Who was flying that plane, Harrison Ford.
In all seriousness I’m glad everyone’s ok but commercial planes have their issues as well. On the news this morning a flight from Italy had to make an emergency landing due to a hole in the engine. But there does seem to be problems with smaller aircraft. I would take a private plane but it has to be the size of Bigly Trump.
I think some celebs chose private airplanes to skip the TSA lines and to get to where they are going much quicker, esp if they fly a lot. On a private plane you get to chose the time of departure.
worst nightmare. I think you either come out of it stronger and conquer your fears or the even more scared of flying. But let’s be realistic, you cannot really avoid that, especially not somebody in her profession, with many commitments overseas.
This story is awful. Glad the plane was as able to land safely.
i tend to avoid flying in general. i drive whenever i can even if it meant a two day solid journey instead of a twelve hour flight for instance.
however, i do very much enjoy listening to ATC chatter; there are several youtube channels i subscribe to that have just that. it’s so amusing, the tightrope life of an ATC!
It makes me sad that she is shown using a retractable leash. I now have less than zero f**ks to give about her.
This is a pretty petty response…
Please tell me what is bad about retractable leashes???
Yeah…I would like to know what is so bad about them, too. I have one, but I don’t use it often because my dog is huge and likes to pull and I worry she’ll snap it. But I don’t see the problem with a retractable leash…it allows the dog more freedom of movement, which is nice for them. They can explore more as they walk.
There’s a few issues with them. The first is just user error, too many people let their dog get too far away in places they really shouldn’t. They can snap easily with a medium to large dog, and they’ve caused some pretty nasty burns, cuts and even amputations when they retracted fast while a person or dog was caught up in them. Also dogs who arent trained on a proper leash often bolt and then get neck injuries when the long leash runs out, because they don’t really understand the leash. Another issue is using them around other dogs. The retraction sound freaks some dogs out, and if a dog is aggressive the long leash makes it hard to prevent a fight in time.
They’re not the worst, and with a tiny dog like JLaw’s they’re totally fine as long as you’re paying attention, but I wouldn’t use them with anything larger than a pug unless the dog was perfectly trained and not the slightest bit reactive.
I felt so awful when I heard this – I used to fly on a regular basis and never got rattled by anything. Then, when I was 5 months pregnant flying home on a 1 hr flight we ran into some turbulence. Nothing too crazy, but we were bouncing. Maybe it was me being pregnant, but I had never been so terrified. I just kept thinking, “but I can’t die! I haven’t had my child yet!”
I’ve flown twice since then and absolutely hate it. I think I’m going to have to start medicating beforehand my anxiety is so bad. I hope she recovers ok from this, it’s not like she can really avoid flying with her career.
Commercial airlines are not that much safer than private planes, actually. And I would kill for that black and grey outfit with the boots. Just sayin’.