by "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
Published 08/04/2017 at 09:35
by "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
Published 08/04/2017 at 09:35
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From the Sun
(yeah, I know), looks like an Air Canada flight flirted with Tenerife 2: Tenerife Bigger last month, lining up on a taxiway, and came close to pancaking on top of four jumbos.
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"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
08/04/2017 at 09:38, STARS: 1
Also from the FP, if you don’t want to give The Sun clicks: http://jalopnik.com/photos-show-just-how-close-canada-jet-came-to-crashing-1797505352
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
08/04/2017 at 09:39, STARS: 1
what’s an fp
where am i
is this toast
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
08/04/2017 at 09:46, STARS: 1
The Sun: Also recommended for you
PLANE DISASTERS (graphic)
Titties
Kylie Minogue eats a sandwich
More titties
Footballers’ cars
Canary Island discount holidays
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
08/04/2017 at 09:47, STARS: 0
SFO sucks ass, I always fly to Oakland if given a choice. The difference in the drive to SF is negligible, there’s a lot less fog, and you don’t feel like you’re landing on an aircraft carrier.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
08/04/2017 at 09:50, STARS: 1
Incredibly silly journalism is still journalism of a sort. Or to borrow from the newspapers monologue in
Yes, Prime Minister
, “Sun readers don’t care who runs the country, as long as she’s got big tits”.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
08/04/2017 at 09:52, STARS: 0
I heard an anecdote from someone who had been visibly nervous before a flight, and a deadheading flight crew member they were talking with said they were either nervous because they knew too little about air travel
or too much.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/04/2017 at 10:11, STARS: 2
If you want a little less hysteria, here is the report from the NTSB.
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA17IA148.aspx
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
08/04/2017 at 10:34, STARS: 1
The inop runway and brightly lit taxiway add important context as to how this happened. With the minimal communication going on, I wouldn’t be surprised if PAL 115 turning their lights on wasn’t the deciding factor (when seconds counted) to get ACA759 to go around. At their descent rate, another 2-3 seconds of indecision would have been fatal - and they weren’t directed by ATC to go around until (without the realization) it would have been approximately 8 seconds too late.
A little hysteria is probably warranted. *Very* close shave. If he’d pancaked on PAL 115 (most likely?) with his ~150 passengers, nearly 300 on board PAL (A340-300), and caromed into UAL 863 for a few bonus casualties (787-9) and fuel all over the place, it would have come pretty close to a Tenerife count, even without involving the other two on the taxiway.
"Out, but with a W - has found the answer" (belg)
08/04/2017 at 10:39, STARS: 0
It’s the same with pretty much any transportation system.
"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
08/04/2017 at 10:57, STARS: 1
Kinda shocked that if you have to ask a question like the AC crew did, why not just go around and take a couple of minutes to get your bearings. PAL crew probably saved a lot of lives turning their lights on.