OT: Emergency landing

[Frank'nfurter]

Has anybody seen this emergency landing with that jetBlue airplane few minutes ago on CNN?
Fucking amazing. These two pilotes are heros!!

 

[Radd]

Yeah, they should get some kind of a metal, I mean medal!
Awesome!

 

[EtherForBreakfast]

I watched that shit go down live on CNN, too... Got a bit sketchy there for a sec when the sparks almost appeared to grow into a fire that could possibly ignite some fuel reserves. Glad it landed safe.

I freaking hate airplanes. I commute on a horse and buggy... "clop clop. bang bang" ... Amish Drive-By.

 

[JeffTD]

Thank god, great job on the pilots part! I'm relieved it went down well.

 

[Glenn Fricker]

I just saw the video on CNN. Talk about skill!

 

[the phish]

the plane took off from my local airport, and landed at LAX.. that shit was ace!

 

[EtherForBreakfast]

Talk about SKILLL?! They are freaking AIRPLANE pilots. It is their job. It's no different than a tile layer who meets a tricky corner.. or a gardner dealing with a tricky weed.

The problem are these pilots who pound 9 pitchers of Bud Light and want to fly and play asshole.

 

[Benny H]

"It's no different than a tile layer who meets a tricky corner"

Yeah it is. 'Tricky corner' in the everyday tiler job description.

You work out the rest.

 

[Impy]

And also the lives of 200 people aren't at stake if that tricky corner gets a few rough edges.

 

[EtherForBreakfast]

OK then... You are a pilot, you take respon. of 150+ lives in your hands.

I'd THINK you would have been trained to land a fucking plane with a bum wheel.

Which is what this guy did.. and thank god he was sober, and not perpetuating the drunken pilot gig.

Point is.. it is not AMAZING.. its not MIRACULOUS.. It's a pilot doing his job, and landing a freaking plane.

 

[Andy Sneap]

I don't think its very easy to do though......

 

[elmuchoescadawg]

Ive done tiling and ive master tricky corners before. Id happily do it again if any of you are interested.
Dont fancy landing a plane though, especially not a broken one.
Tilers dont have that many lives in their hands if they do the corner wrong.

 

[Frank'nfurter]

for all those who didn't see it:

Emergency landing

 

[Lord Lurion]

And another thing: it's amazing how over designed those planes are. I whould of thought that the front wheel shaft would snap off under those circomstances. Instead, only the front wheels seemed to deform and break, the shaft took the beating! I the shaft wouldn't have withstanded the stress, it would of been the planes belly scraping all the way down the landing strip!

 

[Andy Sneap]

if you want a scarey flight, you need to go up in my old boys 4 seater sesna (spelling?) with him at the controls, I've only done it the once it was like the car off chitty chitty bang bang. They discovered mice inside the plane once!!!

 

[Benny H]

It's 'Cessna' I think.

Henry Rollins - 'Eric the pilot' is a great story about a dodgy man, dodgy little plane and flight he experienced. "like the car off chitty chitty bang bang" is how I visualized the plane in that story. It's funny stuff.

 

[Andy Sneap]

Cessna, yep think youre right,

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

one of those cessnas crashed in a road about 5 minutes walk from my house a few weeks ago, made a fucking racket and a half, noone hurt tho.