In 2000, Sandra Bullock had a scary encounter with a plane that nearly cost the actor her life. According to The Guardian, Bullock and her boyfriend at the time, musician Bob Schneider, were traveling from Austin, Texas to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, by way of a twin-engine Hawker corporate jet (aka a private plane) when it went skidding off the runway. Luckily, Bullock, Schneider, and the two pilots on board walked away unscathed, but the aircraft suffered a fair amount of damage.

AirSafe suggests that the incident was due to pilot error because of the poor weather conditions in Jackson Hole and the lack of lighting on the runway. At the time, Teton County Sheriff Bob Zimmer told the New York Post that the plane may be "totaled." To paint a better picture of the timeframe, Bullock's film "Miss Congeniality" came out in theaters the next day. 

Bullock talked about the incident on an episode of "The Late Show With David Letterman," calling the ordeal "sketchy." She continued, ​​"You think that your whole life would flash in front of your eyes, but nothing happened. I sort of went to like a blank, which is sad, which I really need to deal with at some point." Like the AirSafe report, Bullock confirmed with Letterman that the pilot missed the runway. Interestingly, a similar scenario occurred in Bullock's 1999 film, "Forces of Nature," where she and Ben Affleck get into a plane crash during take-off — the catalyst for their on-screen love story. 

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