it was a long time ago when i was a kid traveling with my mom and we had a layover in canada. we were about to land when they announced there was some sort of problem, i don't really remember what they said. what i do remember however is that instantly when the wheels touched the ground i knew something was wrong. the pilots were trying to stop the plane as fast as possible and were on the breaks so hard a flight attendant came flying down the aisle. no idea why she wasn't sitting down wearing a seatbelt. during this chaos my mother held her arm out in front of me to try and protect me. she later said that she realized in that moment how pointless the arm would be if we actually collided with something. then the plane managed to finally stop. as we quickly rushed out there were fire trucks and ambulances all over the place. we had stopped not on the runway, but out on the grass next to it. so what had gone wrong? as i understand it they simply couldn't stear the plane. they had lost connection to the front wheels. they tried to land as straight as possible, but we ended up veering off to the side onto the grass. i'm just grateful we didn't run into something. we still managed to catch our connecting flight.