article_snippet: Only the quick thinking of a pilot averted a similar tragedy last year when a sister plane of the Germanwings jet suddenly lost altitude and nose-dived.
article_snippet: In that incident  , the problem was corrected by a pilot .
article_snippet: A similar The Germanwings Airbus plane to that involved in today's crash was put down in the Hudson River, New York in 2009 .
article_snippet: In that incident, the pilot managed to crash land in the Hudson River and the passengers were saved after a bird strike .
article_snippet: A similar Airbus plane to that involved in today's crash vanished from radar screens in bad weather with initial reports suggesting A similar Airbus plane to that involved in today's crash climbed so fast into a storm that A similar Airbus plane to that involved in today's crash lost lift and plunged into the Java Sea.
article_snippet: One the first accident to involve one of the planes happened in the north east of France, not far from the current crash site, when an Air Inter flight came down in the Vosges mountains in 1992.
article_snippet: The best-known recent incident involving A similar Airbus plane to that involved in today's crash was when a domestic flight in the US had to put down in the Hudson River in New York.
article_snippet: Captain Chesley Sullenberger was widely praised for landing A similar Airbus plane to that involved in today's crash on the river, meaning none of the 155 people on board were seriously injured.
highlights_snippet: Sister plane of that involved in today's crash lost altitude late last year .
  
highlights_snippet: Pilot in that incident  pulled Sister plane of that involved in today's crash out of the dive averting problems .
  