Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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This is horrible. Front landing gear on a jet is turned 90-degrees, emergency landing attempted in Long Beach, now circling LAX, preparing for a "soft landing" according to the AP.
No need going into more detail...just turn on one of the 24/7 news networks on TV. I hope it turns out well. It strikes me as a bit gruesome and tacky, the breathless live coverage. Feels icky and voyeuristic, everyone with cameras trained on this plane. Takes that whole "Faces of Death" thing to a sickening level. But such are the times we live in, I suppose. I won't be watching, just because it feels wrong. I don't want to see if something horrible happens. But I pray for those on board...I know they're scared as can be. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago
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Ugh...that's not good at all. I'll throw another prayer in there with yours PScates.
I hope all those people will be okay. This makes me cringe too as my ambulance is second in on any calls to O' Hare International Airport (the world's busiest airport). Come waste your time with me |
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reticulating your mom
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Prayer thirded.
Let's hope that this turns out as well as the incident a few weeks ago... |
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Local news has been covering this live for the last hour.
All of the experts that they're been talking to pretty much agree that one of two things will probably happen: 1. On landing, the gear will collapse and the plane will skid to a halt. 2. As the pilot eases the front gear down on the runway, it'll spin into place and the plane will land normally. I think #2 is unlikely, but this is being called a "manageable" situation, not a crisis. |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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I'm with Paul. I won't watch this until it's done. To garner ratings of something like this is pathetic. For all they know the thing will burst into flames and kill half the people aboard, but they don't give a rat's ass. Coverage is Holy Grail. Media Buttheads....
...into the light of a dark black night. |
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The Elder™
Join Date: May 2004
Location: The Rostra
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Well, it's down without incident.
Hooray for good pilots. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago
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That's a relief. Glad everyone is okay!
<cynic> time for the lawsuits to start rolling in! </cynic> |
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That landing was smooooth.
Thank God everything's okay. Here's to the pilots... they sure knew what they were doing. |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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I'm glad it didn't turn into a tragedy. Lord knows the last few weeks have been pretty depressing.
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Great landing!
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Good deal...
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ottawa, ON
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Well done.
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Join Date: May 2004
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That's good news.
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Join Date: May 2004
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It was a heck of a landing. The pilot kept it in a nose-up 2-point for nearly 10 seconds, by my count. Nice job. Give the guy a medal.
And a clean pair of shorts. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Glad to see it ended well. I've not had the TV on in a while, so I was kinda scared to find out. I saw the replay...what a smooth job those pilots did. Hats off to them. I'm happy, as are all those people.
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Streaming H.264 if anyone wants a peek.
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M AH - ch ain saw
Join Date: May 2004
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Thank god everyone is alright.
Despite that, I think the media made it out to be a little more than it was. I wonder what happens to the runway, do they repave it now? What's deal? User formally known as Sh0eWax |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Damn nice flying!
Give that man a cigar. <<--- re-encoded the video on my blog with just the landing and reduced size for the bandwidth impaired (3.4 meg instead of 43). OK, I have given up keeping this sig up to date. Lets just say I'm the guy that installs every latest version as soon as its available! |
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Just to recap on this one briefly...
Apparently there were eight-count 'em-eight news copters chasing this plane and filming the entire thing. EIGHT!!! Geez, how overboard can you get? Would have been truly ironic if two of those copters had crashed into each other in the pursuit of journalistic glory... |
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When I was a kid, people who did wrong were punished, restricted, and forbidden. Now, when someone does wrong, all of the rest of us are punished, restricted, and forbidden... and the one who did the wrong is counselled and "understood" and fed ice cream. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Yeah, that touches on what I brought up a couple of months ago about the increasingly idiotic antics of the "hurricane jockeys" covering these storms for the big news and broadcast networks.
I'm completely convinced that they're not going to pull back until some on-air reporter gets his head sliced off on live TV from debris flying around at 200mph. Mark my words...something like that will happen (maybe not so dramatic as a partial decapitation, but some sort of serious injury), and when it does it's ALL we'll hear about for weeks. The reporter will be eulogized and praised up the wazoo and it'll take some clown like me to point out that perhaps he shouldn't have been standing under a flapping gas station sign in 125mph winds. |
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Something happend with Jet Blue again like 2 days after that... i forget wat it was i just remember hearing about it... i hope they get their shit together im flying jet blue to LAX this christmas
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"Max Headroom" anyone? |
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Next question: How smart is it to have the inflight teevee tuned to video of your plane in trouble?
Isn't it a bit surreal to try and control nervous passengers when they can see themselves panicking in the windows and observe the bits falling off their aircraft? Putting aside the reality TV egomaniacs for a moment, and the ambulance chasing gory-detail fans, is it smart crowd control to show the non-pilots the true risks or just incitement? How long before the first lawsuit for 'undue stress and mental anguish' ? |
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Orlando, FL
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they need to stop chasing airplanes and start looking for other important news too. Maybe these are a start. http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2006/index.htm
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