Posted on 08/19/2014 9:23:45 PM PDT by george76
A China Eastern Airlines Corp passenger plane that had started its night-time descent into a Wuhan airport was forced to abort its landing after air traffic controllers had dozed off
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the China Eastern flight crew made repeated attempts to contact the duty flight controllers at Wuhan Tianhe Airport - twice in English and once in Chinese. Those calls went unanswered.
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China Eastern has suffered other mishaps in recent weeks
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Sum Ting Wong
Sum Ting is Very Wong
Yes, sun ting is very wong. If the aircraft is low on fuel, just act like it is an uncontrolled airport, and land the dang airplane.
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