fareako, whatever

OH GOD I GOT TWO F-SCREEN NAMES MIXED UP

1/15/2009 6:05:43 PM

F!
4.02!

1/15/2009 6:06:05 PM

I feel really really bad for zorthage. It's no wonder he broke off with her before.

1/15/2009 6:07:43 PM

Are you Gellin? WE GELLIN

1/15/2009 6:08:53 PM

heh it's funny when 2 people that barely have a leg to stand on themselves argue in this case i'd at least say ambrosia has a real leg and kiwi has a dilapidated peg leg though

1/15/2009 6:09:09 PM

Together, we have two legs

I'd still push her off a bridge, though.
I don't go around getting accidentally knocked up; ergo, she's a bigger threat to society than I.

1/15/2009 6:10:51 PM

I think as long as your wobbly ass runs around complaining about something(usually anything you can think of), or making as much fucking noise as comes out of that blubbering hole the bigger threat is you.

1/15/2009 6:16:16 PM

Of course.

You're right.

What else could you ever be?
(rhetorical question, by the way. Which means everyone already knows the answer)

1/15/2009 6:17:23 PM

Just as long as we agree.

1/15/2009 6:19:50 PM

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"This was the first ever completely successful water ditch by a wide-bodied plane "

a320s arent wide bodied jets.

ive flown on this flight to get back to nc a few times. pretty freaky.

1/15/2009 6:55:43 PM

Amazing.

1/15/2009 7:19:56 PM

^^ I did a little research to back up what we'd been talking about at work, and there have actually been about a dozen instances of commercial aircraft (not technically wide-bodied) successfully ditching, if successful is defined as some of the occupants surviving.


So I sit corrected.


This is, however, the first ditching of a large commercial jet with no human fatalities (an Indonesian jet ditched in 2002 with only one fatality)

1/15/2009 7:31:04 PM

Did you see what I did there?

1/15/2009 7:31:18 PM

^ 10/10

1/15/2009 7:33:48 PM

6 people from Belk were on that flight coming back from market...all of them are okay and belk send a car to ny to drive them back here...none of them want to take a plane back

1/15/2009 7:44:26 PM

If they were smart they'd fly back. You know what the odds are of one person being involved in 2 commercial airline crashes? It's already like 1 in a hundred million to be killed in 1 crash alone.

1/15/2009 7:51:43 PM

yeah, you are more likely to die on a car ride anywhere after the plane crash than be in two plane crashes

1/15/2009 7:53:50 PM

I'm sure it's hard to be super logical after you just survived a plane crash.

1/15/2009 7:54:52 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy

1/15/2009 7:59:05 PM

^^ Agree

1/15/2009 8:01:01 PM

1/15/2009 8:03:03 PM

lol the commenters on Charlotte.com are calling out the Observer, which is trying to attention whore the story to involve Charlotte in a huge way

1/15/2009 8:47:22 PM

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"we are constintly getting drilled"

says the female rescue worker

1/15/2009 9:08:51 PM

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"I'm sure it's hard to be super logical after you just survived a plane crash."

And even if you do choose to fly back...stress and anxiety are physically detrimental, especially over long periods, or at very intense levels.

At the very least: "Let's choose a new kind of risk"

1/15/2009 9:12:47 PM

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"damn those wings are strong to support all those poeple "

ha, they support the weight of the airplane in flight, don't they?

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"seriously though, how did that thing not break up when it hit the water? "

You can ditch an airplane in the water without it breaking up. Keep the gear up (if you have fixed gear, you will likely flip over), land parallel to the swells if able. Many airplanes actually have a ditching checklist.

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"probably a lower speed since the engines were out"

stall speed in a jet is independant of whether the engines are running. right after takeoff, the jet would be heavy, and actually have to land faster than normal. also, i don't know if the engines were totally failed/shut down, or if at least one was still operating at reduced thrust.

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"i wonder if he was Navy or Air Force trained. Air Force pilots usually have smoother landings but Navy pilots are often more well versed in landing on a variety of surfaces.."

Air Force guys have super long runways to work with. Navy/Marine guys don't flare when landing on the boat--they fly the airplane into the deck. Navy guys in boat squadrons often do the same thing just for practice when making field landings. Flaring to land isn't that hard, though. In this case, you'd want to flare and hold it in ground effect as best as you could.

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"flaps deff. at 40 degrees"

not all flaps go to 40 degrees. different airplanes have different configurations.

Quote :

"none of them want to take a plane back "

1/16/2009 2:54:54 AM

Either way I'm glad the pilot is getting all the praise he deserves. He saved a lot of sadness today.

1/16/2009 2:56:53 AM

alright so i am flying US airways next weekend....do i man up and get on the plane or run like a bitch!?

1/16/2009 6:11:12 AM

holy jeebus!!

1/16/2009 7:40:04 AM

man up.

dude, i think i break out the emergency checklists once or twice per month. i've landed with 15 minutes worth of fuel remaining, into an arresting cable because the nosegear wouldn't come down (it finally came down on short final, maybe 10-15 seconds before we landed). I've landed in one broken aircraft (hydraulic pump failure) and scrambled right over into another jet to take off again. I've aborted 2 takeoffs in the last month alone (one at high speed--the brakes welded themselves together when we stopped). On multiple occasions, I've had flaps, slats, and landing gear all refuse to come down.

Shit happens with airplanes. It probably won't kill you.

...especially in a commercial airliner. There are so many reduntant systems that it would have to be a really bad day for anything that severe to happen.

...

1/16/2009 7:56:35 AM

i wonder how many people shit themselves on that plane

1/16/2009 9:03:00 AM

^LOL'D


but seriously, people involved in a traumatic car accident get hauled away in an ambulance (if physical injuries dont necessitate a chopper ride). --or -- OMG I JUST SAW A HORRIFIC CAR ACCIDENT I CAN NEVER RIDE IN A CAR AGAIN


anyway, carry on.

[Edited on January 16, 2009 at 9:07 AM. Reason : ==]

1/16/2009 9:06:48 AM

must be a religious group on that plane. THEY'RE WALKING ON WATER!!!!!11

1/16/2009 9:16:38 AM

I was waiting for Duke to come in and drop some knowledge...thanks!

1/16/2009 9:20:15 AM

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"i don't know if the engines were totally failed/shut down, or if at least one was still operating at reduced thrust."

dual engine failure. pilot brought it in and pulled the nose up just before water contact. geese in both engines.

bravo to the pilot and the crew. they did a fantastic job. took off to the north, lost both engines, looped west over NYC and did a soft belly landing, gears up, no power, on the west side, in the Hudson River. dead sticking an A320 is ballsy.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/209/118

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"i wonder if he was Navy or Air Force trained."

pilot has been flying for US Airways for 29 years, and was a USAF fighter pilot for 7 years prior to that.

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"Hudson River hero is ex-Air Force fighter pilot By AMY WESTFELDT, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 11 mins ago NEW YORK – The pilot who guided a crippled US Airways jetliner safely into the Hudson River — saving all 155 people aboard — became an instant hero Thursday, with accolades from the mayor and governor and a fan club online. The pilot of Flight 1549 was Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, 57, of Danville, Calif., an official familiar with the accident told The Associated Press. Sullenberger is a former fighter pilot who runs a safety consulting firm in addition to flying commercial aircraft. Sullenberger, who has flown for US Airways since 1980, flew F-4 fighter jets with the Air Force in the 1970s. He then served on a board that investigated aircraft accidents and participated later in several National Transportation Safety Board investigations. Sullenberger had been studying the psychology of keeping airline crews functioning even in the face of crisis, said Robert Bea, a civil engineer who co-founded UC Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management. Bea said he could think of few pilots as well-situated to bring the plane down safely than Sullenberger. "When a plane is getting ready to crash with a lot of people who trust you, it is a test.. Sulley proved the end of the road for that test. He had studied it, he had rehearsed it, he had taken it to his heart." Sullenberger is president of Safety Reliability Methods, a California firm that uses "the ultra-safe world of commercial aviation" as a basis for safety consulting in other fields, according to the firm's Web site. Sullenberger's mailbox at the firm was full on Thursday. A group of fans sprang up on Facebook within hours of the emergency landing. "OMG, I am terrified of flying but I would be happy to be a passenger on one of your aircraft!!" Melanie Wills in Bristol wrote on the wall of "Fans of Sully Sullenberger." "You have saved a lot of peoples lives and are a true hero!!" The pilot "did a masterful job of landing the plane in the river and then making sure that everybody got out," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. "He walked the plane twice after everybody else was off, and tried to verify that there was nobody else on board, and he assures us there was not." "He was the last one up the aisle and he made sure that there was nobody behind him." Gov. David Paterson pronounced it a "miracle on the Hudson." A woman who answered the phone at Sullenberger's home in Danville hung up on a reporter who asked to speak with the family. Candace Anderson, a member of the Danville town council who lives a few blocks from Sullenberger, said it was an amazing story and she was proud to live in the same town as the pilot. "You look at his training, you look at his experience. It was just the right pilot at the right time in charge of that plane that saved so many lives," Anderson said. "He is a man who is calm, cool, collected, just as he was today." Sullenberger's co-pilot was Jeff Skiles, 49, of Oregon, Wis., a 23-year US Airways veteran. "He was OK," said his wife, Barbara. "He was relieved that everybody got off.""

1/16/2009 9:25:54 AM

1/16/2009 9:29:47 AM

So, if the current in the Hudson was flowing as fast as the plan was moving fowards, could it take off again....?


...ah, fuck it.

[Edited on January 16, 2009 at 9:45 AM. Reason : ]

1/16/2009 9:44:08 AM

I bet he'd rehearsed that scenario in his head, never dreaming in a million years that he'd actually do it.

1/16/2009 10:47:30 AM

He practiced on Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

1/16/2009 10:52:36 AM

ha, i didn't mean that. i mean that if he flew out of that airport regularly, I'm sure he'd thought through contingencies like that...but a dual-engine failure is really, really rare.

1/16/2009 10:57:35 AM

The pilot's resume just got a pretty kickass boost.

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"Special Skills: Successful Water Landings"

[Edited on January 16, 2009 at 11:00 AM. Reason : a]

1/16/2009 10:59:34 AM

Sully is the man, that is all. Watch all the military types try to compare themselves to him. No contest people.

1/16/2009 11:00:19 AM

^^^ Yeah, I talked to some of the engineers at US Airways yesterday when this happend. I used to work in the single aisle Airbus fleet.

[Edited on January 16, 2009 at 11:01 AM. Reason : o.O]

1/16/2009 11:00:32 AM

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"The pilot's resume just got a pretty kickass boost."

Experienced in submarine surfacing.

1/16/2009 11:01:32 AM

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"The pilot's resume just got a pretty kickass boost."

yeah, unless he really screws something big up, I'm pretty sure he'll be able to pretty much write his own ticket as a commercial pilot.

1/16/2009 11:04:10 AM

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"So, if the current in the Hudson was flowing as fast as the plan was moving fowards, could it take off again....?"

gg

1/16/2009 11:04:32 AM

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"The pilot's resume just got a pretty kickass boost."

Air Force One is hiring.

Seeking candidates that successfully landed in the Hudson River without any human casualties, and have nicknames that rhyme with Mully.

1/16/2009 11:05:30 AM

ha, that might be one of the few flying jobs that he might not be able to get.

I talked to the CO of HMX-1, the USMC helo squadron that flies Marine One, and apparently things as simple as a traffic ticket, a bounced check, etc, can DQ you from flying the President around.

1/16/2009 11:12:26 AM

i bet he gets a fat bonus

1/16/2009 11:13:55 AM

His fat bonus is still being alive

1/16/2009 11:18:50 AM

killjoy

1/16/2009 11:19:15 AM