Re: OT: LAX emergency plane landing now!


"Rick Y" <nunya@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Buddude197" <buddude197(spamsucks)@comcast.net> wrote in
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>
>>
>> <Swyck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> >Remember that
>>>>>amazing pilot who flew the jet with no hydraulic power. Had to steel
>>>>>the damn thing by throttling the engines up and down and brought it
>>>>>down in a cornfield. Saved about half the passengers. How he
>>>>>accomplished that is amazing.
>>>>
>>>>No I don't. When did this happen? Recently?
>>> I think that pilot was giving commentary on one of the news feeds. I
>>> think it was MSNBC. It happened in the late 80s. Pretty amazing.
>>>
>>> Swyck
>>
>>
>> Thats the one. I think it was in Idaho or something, I'll gaurantee
>> you saw the video of the crash, A Jumbo jet cartwheeling off an old
>> abandoned runway into a cornfield. How the pilot managed to navigate
>> to the runway was a miracle itself, he had no flaps, rudder, brakes or
>> ailerons to control the plane and had to use the trottle to steer the
>> plane from side to side and force it into minor stalls to bring it
>> down. Everyone should have been killed, an uncontrollable machine that
>> high up. I think he saved the majority of the passengers, but at least
>> 85 died. Late 80's
>>
>>
>>
>
> Maybe he had his hand out of the window rotating his palm ever so
> slightly.
>
> Rick


If I was on that plane, I'd have my palm up the stewardesses dress rotating
quite violently.


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