Jet Crash

Last night I dreamt I was staying in a high rise hotel in an unfamiliar city. It was heavily overcast, but occasionally planes would dip below the clouds on their way to a landing. I would see their landing lights cut through the clouds before the actual plane would emerge and I would hear the roar of the jet engines.

I could hear this pulsing popping sound, kind of a fwoop fwoop fwoop, and I could see these flashes of yellowish lights through clouds. Then a plain emerged from below the clouds and the engines were shooting blasts of flame intermittently and it was rapidly losing altitude. It crashed into another hotel a block or two away from the one I was staying in.

I've seen a video of a plane doing this before after it sucked a bird, but then only one engine and they still had a good engine and were able to turn around and land. This was both engines, maybe they went through a whole flock of birds.

The plane itself was strange, gave new meaning to "wide bodied jet". Instead of having a cylindrical fuselage, it was tear-dropped shape and very wide compared to even a normal wide bodied jet, but stubbier. The engines were also very wide. I don't know what such a shape would do for aerodynamics.

I went to call 9-1-1 from a cell phone I had with me and I got through, but when they asked me where I was, I couldn't tell them, I didn't know. I don't know if that's because it was a dream and I hadn't invented that detail yet, or because I was in such a state of shock from seeing the crash.

It seems to be a reference to 9-11 too, both that I tried to call 9-1-1 and that it was a passenger jet crashing into a building, though in this case clearly mechanical trouble was involved as both engines were flaming out.