{"id":494921,"date":"2026-02-23T21:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494921\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:50:11","slug":"ex-f1-team-boss-survives-scary-plane-incident-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494921\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-F1 team boss survives scary plane incident in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/formula-1\" title=\"Formula 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> team boss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/otmar-szafnauer\" title=\"Otmar Szafnauer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Otmar Szafnauer<\/a> revealed on social media that he was involved in a scary incident. &#8220;Many thanks to these two professionals for expertly handling our engine failure on takeoff.&#8221;- Otmar Szafnauer<\/p>\n<p>Szafnauer was flying with Delta Airlines in the United States when suddenly, the engine failed as the aircraft was taking off from Savannah, Georgia, to Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>The plane safely completed its emergency landing, leaving no one injured after the frightening incident.<\/p>\n<p>The former Formula 1 team boss posted the incident on social media with the caption: &#8220;Fuel burning from the failed engine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Later, Szafnauer also took a selfie with the pilots as well. &#8220;Many thanks to these two professionals for expertly handling our engine failure on takeoff (just past Vr).&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Szafnauer&#8217;s ambition to return to F1<\/p>\n<p>Szafnauer previously worked for Aston Martin (and its predecessors, Force India and Racing Point) and as a team principal for Alpine until July 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/exclusive-news\/a-new-manufacturer-as-twelfth-team-in-f1-these-are-the-concrete-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In an exclusive interview<\/a> with GPblog, Szafnauer previously talked about his plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a 12-team opportunity becomes available, if and when, I want to be ready so that I will put an application in and I want to be ready so it can be successful,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Formula 1 team boss Otmar Szafnauer revealed on social media that he was involved in a scary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,28673,576,577,198583,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-494921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-f1-news","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-otmar-szafnauer","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}