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exhawg
Mirror Guy
I was flying back from Chicago once. Shortly after takeoff I was talking to the person in the window seat when a saw a large ball of fire shoot out of the right wing engine. The plane veered to the right for a second before the pilot could turn off the engine and compensate with the other 2. The pilot said that a duck hit the air conditioner, but I'm pretty sure it went through the engine. The cabin got smoky and one of the flight attendants started crying, but we flew all the way back to Cleveland with one of the engines not working.
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Right before jumping out @ 14,000 feet in St. George, SC...after you jump its amazing though.
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two come to mind immediately...
The worst:
New York to O'Hare .. about 10 pm... Capt comes on to say the landing gear won't work.. but they have an alternate... Capt comes on to say alternate isn't working... so they're going to manual... Capt comes on to say they have to buzz the tower so the tower can tell them whether they see wheels... and that we should not be concerned about seeing emergency vehicles... we buzz tower and circle back...
Capt says they saw wheels but not sure if they'll hold up... they're considering foaming the runway... we're getting closer.. and I see emergency vehicles.. and the closer we get the more vehicles until finally all I see for hundreds of yards.. solid.. are emergency vehicles.. lights screaming... hundreds of pickups with what looks like body bags in the back... ONE bus... dozens of ambulances...
we make it in... and so... trying to alleviate the tension.. yours truly.. pops a BAD joke... "well, there's only one bus.. but tons of pickups... they must have expected 40 of us to live" .. did NOT go over well with my subordinates that were with me...
Other event was merely wind shear coming an hour north from Dallas... we just fell out of the sky.. not gradually... right NOW... for what seemed forever... I know how Magic & Goose felt in Top Gun...
I have flown so much, none of this bothers me... my almost car accidents have been much scarier... with a plane, you ain't gonna feel anything
The worst:
New York to O'Hare .. about 10 pm... Capt comes on to say the landing gear won't work.. but they have an alternate... Capt comes on to say alternate isn't working... so they're going to manual... Capt comes on to say they have to buzz the tower so the tower can tell them whether they see wheels... and that we should not be concerned about seeing emergency vehicles... we buzz tower and circle back...
Capt says they saw wheels but not sure if they'll hold up... they're considering foaming the runway... we're getting closer.. and I see emergency vehicles.. and the closer we get the more vehicles until finally all I see for hundreds of yards.. solid.. are emergency vehicles.. lights screaming... hundreds of pickups with what looks like body bags in the back... ONE bus... dozens of ambulances...
we make it in... and so... trying to alleviate the tension.. yours truly.. pops a BAD joke... "well, there's only one bus.. but tons of pickups... they must have expected 40 of us to live" .. did NOT go over well with my subordinates that were with me...
Other event was merely wind shear coming an hour north from Dallas... we just fell out of the sky.. not gradually... right NOW... for what seemed forever... I know how Magic & Goose felt in Top Gun...
I have flown so much, none of this bothers me... my almost car accidents have been much scarier... with a plane, you ain't gonna feel anything
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scarletandgrey
Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult!
Source: Shots Fired Aboard Plane in Miami
MIAMI (AP) - A federal air marshal opened fire on board an American Airlines flight on the ground at Miami International Airport, according to a law enforcement official who spoke only on condition of anonymity.
At least one person was wounded, according to broadcast reports said. The plane had just arrived from Colombia and was headed to Orlando. Television showed police SWAT officers surrounding the plane.
Airport and Miami-Dade County police officials said they had no immediate comment. Airlines officials did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
According to American Airlines' Web site, Flight 924 arrived from Medellin at 12:16 p.m. It was supposed to depart for Orlando at 2:18 p.m. The site says the flight status is delayed.
Television images from the scene showed armed officers taking up positions around the plane. MSNBC reported that the shooting took place on the jet bridge, between the plane and the terminal.
Associated Press Writer Mark Sherman in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.
12/07/05 14:52
I wasn't there today but still pretty scary
MIAMI (AP) - A federal air marshal opened fire on board an American Airlines flight on the ground at Miami International Airport, according to a law enforcement official who spoke only on condition of anonymity.
At least one person was wounded, according to broadcast reports said. The plane had just arrived from Colombia and was headed to Orlando. Television showed police SWAT officers surrounding the plane.
Airport and Miami-Dade County police officials said they had no immediate comment. Airlines officials did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
According to American Airlines' Web site, Flight 924 arrived from Medellin at 12:16 p.m. It was supposed to depart for Orlando at 2:18 p.m. The site says the flight status is delayed.
Television images from the scene showed armed officers taking up positions around the plane. MSNBC reported that the shooting took place on the jet bridge, between the plane and the terminal.
Associated Press Writer Mark Sherman in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.
12/07/05 14:52
I wasn't there today but still pretty scary
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Savante
The Ruler's Back
When I was 12 or so, my pops and I flew to St. Louis. Short flight, but on the way back, I went to pee, and we hit turbulence. I ended up pissing all over the mirror and the walls, and then trying to close my fly, I fell and about knocked myself out. I tried to get back to my seat, but ended up going flying, spilling some lady's drink all over her. I felt bad.
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Windshear at the point of touchdown in Port Elizabeth about twenty years ago. I was just behind the wing and the right wing tip brushed the runway and threw off sparks and then we careened around a bit but it didn't touch hard enough to flip us or anything. Still, there were some folks crying and I am quite sure a few folks needed to refresh their Depends!
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I was flying from Ft Riley KS to KC, MO in some plane with propellers and one of the fucking engines quit. That sucked a bit but I was young, single and in the Army at the time so I really didn't give a fuck. Just don't even think about dying in those days.
Years later I had an experience similar to New Jersy Bucks. Landing gear wouldn't go up and the friction was a fire hazard so we had to do an emergency landing in Philly. Fire trucks, emergency vehicles the whole 9 yards. Worst part I was with my wife and the kids weren't with us, I just remember being sooo pissed off that my kids were gonna be orphaned. I was furious.
Funny part was after all the drama, all the passengers were in the terminal waiting on word about connecting flights and generally decompressing when the dumb fuck airline rep announces the plane's fixed and we'll start re-boarding shortly. I've never actually seen a crowd that was prepared to kill a person before but not one swinging dick got back on that plane. Most rented cars and drove the fuck to where they were going.
As far as bad turbulence goes, the worst I've had was the kind that pops those overhead bins open and sends shit flying everywhere. Scares the shit out of you but luckily no one caught anything large in the dome. Just a lot of air sickness me included.
Years later I had an experience similar to New Jersy Bucks. Landing gear wouldn't go up and the friction was a fire hazard so we had to do an emergency landing in Philly. Fire trucks, emergency vehicles the whole 9 yards. Worst part I was with my wife and the kids weren't with us, I just remember being sooo pissed off that my kids were gonna be orphaned. I was furious.
Funny part was after all the drama, all the passengers were in the terminal waiting on word about connecting flights and generally decompressing when the dumb fuck airline rep announces the plane's fixed and we'll start re-boarding shortly. I've never actually seen a crowd that was prepared to kill a person before but not one swinging dick got back on that plane. Most rented cars and drove the fuck to where they were going.
As far as bad turbulence goes, the worst I've had was the kind that pops those overhead bins open and sends shit flying everywhere. Scares the shit out of you but luckily no one caught anything large in the dome. Just a lot of air sickness me included.
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BuckeyeTillIDie
The North Remembers
Coming back from Florida this past summer. Hit some turbulence I guess, and I was sitting there when I swear it sounded like the planes' engines shut off, and we started to decend down. It really scared the shit out of me. In hindsight, I guess we were just getting out of the turbulence by dropping however many feet. I had to turn the air on me to keep from having a panic attack, what a pussy.
Oh, and Dryden, that is hilarious
Oh, and Dryden, that is hilarious
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stxbuck
Woody wore Sambas
Last Dec. 22ndd my family and I were supposed to fly from Columbus to Portland, when the godawful snowstorm hit. My parents, sister and I had to drive three hours to Columbus thru the snow, bouncing and sliding the whole way. Then, at Columbus Int'l, we boarded the plane, but waited for 2 hours on the plane while they claimed they were bringing in de-icing fluid from Indianapolis. Needless to say, the fluid never arrived, and we had to go back home. To make things worse, our bags had already been sent ahead to Portland. We caught a flight out on Christmas, tho, so everything worked out, but that was one of the longest days of my life. The worst part tho, was the fact that because we missed a couple of days before Christmas, my mom added a couple of extra days on the return date-which happened to be the day of the Alamo Bowl, which happened to be on while we drove to the Medford Airport, and my aunt refused to turn on the radio b/c she had to talk about her friends-people my parents and i didn't even know, or particularly want to hear about. Then, the Medford airport bar doesn't have ESPN, so I missed watching the Alamo Bowl.
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