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"We'd like to declare an emergency - we've lost all our instruments"
Topic Started: Apr 9 2011, 04:47 AM (294 Views)
George K
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Finally
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/united_airlines_pilot_airport.html

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The voice from the ground giving the green light for United Airlines Flight 497 to take off from Louis Armstrong International Airport came in crystal clear over the radio. So did the voice from the plane that, 4 1/2 minutes later, requested immediate clearance to return:

"We need to vector back to the airport. We've got a smoke issue with the airplane...and we'd like the longest runway, please." :hair:

The Airbus A320 eventually came safely to a rest in a patch of grass, a third of a mile before the end of Runway 19, with a blown tire and emergency slides stretching to the ground where 106 passengers and crew milled about.


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Mark
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HOLY CARP!!!
It seems that flying is getting more dangerous lately.
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Mark
Apr 9 2011, 07:46 AM
It seems that flying is getting more dangerous lately.
Get rid of the FAA and free market will make it all better. :D
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Copper
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Apr 9 2011, 08:38 AM
Mark
Apr 9 2011, 07:46 AM
It seems that flying is getting more dangerous lately.
Get rid of the FAA and free market will make it all better. :D

Yes, exactly.

Air Florida and Valujet are two good examples.
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jon-nyc
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Yes, its well known they bypass the FAA and choose the flightpaths and landing slots that they want.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Copper
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I was referring to how the free market put them out of business when they buried a planeload of passengers.

Free markets don't like deadly products (even when approved by the feds).
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Mark
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Copper
Apr 9 2011, 09:32 AM
I was referring to how the free market put them out of business when they buried a planeload of passengers.

Free markets don't like deadly products (even when approved by the feds).
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Jolly
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Read about this one the day it happened.

The pilot did a very good job of setting the bird down, but they had to put him on the shortest runway. He blew the tire after the plane was pretty much safely down.
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Mikhailoh
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Swell. I just flew home on an A320.
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Frank_W
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Good job by the pilot.
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