Travel can be a fearful business, even if you've scored the best travel insurance policy there is. Things can go wrong all the time, from the airplane crashing to having a bad hot dog and getting food poisoning.

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Following the BA Boeing 777 crash earlier this week, I found some tips on an older Condé Nast travel article about getting out alive when your plane comes down far too fast.

A plane from China operated by British Airways crashed at Heathrow today after shearing off its rear landing gear by touching down short of the runway.