A long time ago I read a story in which a man was flying his family in a small, single engine I think, airplane. On approach to the airport in a major US city a strange updraft/downdraft brought the small aircraft into contact with an airliner passing above. Air traffic control alerted ground emergency services to a lost private aircraft until the jet was seen to have the small plane impaled on the nosewheel.
All survived and media attention helped the man's career.
It may have been on usenet before I found SOL. Can any knowledgable person provide a title or author I can search for?