Close call plane crash

[madcampbell]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/tt...tid=1379245376

Lucky escape for most

[thecaretaker]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/tt...tid=1379245376

Lucky escape for most

those pilots are bl**dy hero's turning that plane to the right otherwise that could have been much worse

[joe GT]

Surely it'll polish out with good ole t-cut?

...Then again...

[thecaretaker]

Surely it'll polish out with good ole t-cut?

...Then again...

a few hours panel beating new wheels it will be back in the air next week

[Apache]

Any facts about what happened yet?

(Not 'eyewitness' reports cos they're usually unreliable)

[BUSHWHACKER]

Apparently, the plane had a complete electrics failure.

[Vultch]

both engines failing...at a guess....they ran out of fuel.....

[laser_jock99]

Any facts about what happened yet?

Both engines cut out 40 seconds before landing.

[Apache]

Hmmm, sounds unlikely they ran out of fuel cos they'd make a different approach, or would have diverted somewhere closer if there was the risk.

Some sort of catastrophic failure sounds more likely, though as critical systems are triple redundant, sounds unlikely also.

Wait and see I guess.

[Chillitt]

There was a bad sort on the plane trying to park it on top of the bogey eater who was off somewhere hot, just till the rain stops. Only way to stop him, was take the keys out. So I heard, anyway...

[Apache]

You could be right Charlie.

However, they're talking about windshear on TV now. That sounds entirely more plausible, but the pilots would know immediately and I would have thought they'd have said straight away.

[Chillitt]

You could be right Charlie.

However, they're talking about windshear on TV now. That sounds entirely more plausible, but the pilots would know immediately and I would have thought they'd have said straight away.

Well they are hardly going to admit it, are they.... Windshear? did the planes a minute ahead or a minute behind experience any trouble???

[Apache]

Windshear can be very transient, it needn't affect planes travelling the same route shortly after.

I think it's Fort Worth suffers a lot during the stormy seasons, and I seem to recall they've lost a few planes there due to it. Must flown in there half a dozen times meself. Its always in the back of my mind!

[That Ruddy Squirrel]

Looking at the TV coverage yesterday the plane had more mud on it than must of us did by the time we got home from the Plains - did Woodzie take it for a spin ?

Or then again are they not telling us that the last message the pilots got before the crunch was 'Windows has suffered a fatal exception in........'


Joking aside the crew did ###### well to get it down and everyone out safely, a measure of how well the pilots did was the comments from some passengers that they thought it was just a bumpy landing until they got outside.


Trev

[Apache]

It WAS just a bumpy landing.

As they say, any landing you can walk away from...