Flight 128 on the Airbus A380 from Singapore Airlines had departed Hawaii bound for San Francisco International hours before the solar flares. That's when all communications went dead, the engines cut out, and flight controls switched to manual. It was like trying to drive a bus through molasses.<br/><br/>With San Francisco on the horizon the pilots made a decision. With altitude and prevailing winds at the time before the instruments went dead they believed they could land the plane at San Fran international still.<br/><br/>Believe it or not an average jet liner at travel altitude can glide for roughly twenty minutes with absolutely no engines. If a runway is nearby and the planes controls work, they can land safely. Unfortunately for these pilots, the electronic controls weren't working. So as the plane glided in over the city the now fully emergency prepared passengers watched in horror as they grazed over the tops of buildings. Below a shiny new Moroccan inspired shopping centre and packed parking lot looked so close that they could just step out into it.<br/><br/>In the next moment the jetliner came down hard on it's landing gears. When the nose touched the gear snapped like it wasn't even there and the plane pitched to one side, caught the tip of it's wing and spiraled out of control. It went off the freeway that they had tried to land on and slammed sideways into a large hotel roughly a half mile from the Moroccan themed shopping centre.<br/><br/>There was little fuel left in the plane but it was more then enough to explode. The heat of the blast could be felt from hundreds of feet away. The entire hotel complex instantly became an inferno.<br/><br/><em>Airbus A380 - Seating Capacity: 519<br/>Luxury Hotel - 543 rooms</em><br/>