I want to validate June and Tatiana's "vortex rescuing the plane" theory, because that exact thing actually happened in an episode of Doctor Who, the 2011 Christmas special "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe".
https://en.wikipedia...nd_the_Wardrobe
In it, the Doctor travels back to WWII England to watch over a widow and her two children whose father has recently been reported MIA in a plane crash (shown at the beginning of the episode). Without getting into too much detail, the episode ends with the widow piloting a space ship through a time vortex and coming up alongside her husbands bomber in the past as it's about to crash into the English channel. The plane is follows the ship through the vortex, and both plane and family arrive safely at their home in England.