Posted on 11/30/2016 9:09:26 AM PST by BenLurkin
Yeah. We’re on the same page. I had a friend back in the early 1980’s that was a flight attendant for Alaska. They hit some turbulence as he was walking down the aisle, It threw him into the ceiling and he came down on an arm rail, breaking his arm.
I wear my seat belt during the entire flight too. :-)
People die every day. I’m removed by time and space. There are jokes about the Titanic too. Heck, I’ve made jokes about my own perils at the time they were happening. Life is a mist.
BTW, If I missed that people on this thread had loved ones on that flight, I apologize.
Why?
Did "someone at the airport" MOVE the airport and then not tell the pilot?
British comedy “Coupling” one character claims the “oxygen-mask speech” is the most optimistic in the English language. “Attach the mask and continue to breathe normally”.
Thank you, I'll take comfort in that - if I ever force myself to fly again. I should note that no other passengers seemed to be concerned. So I just kept a poker face (while praying silently).
I think the plane was a 737-800. But I have no knowledge of engines, or what might have been switched out with a newer version. The flight on the way home was also a 737-800 I believe, but its descent was noisier, fwiw. The only idea I could come up with to explain it to myself was that wind conditions were different on the way back.
Actually, ATC told him to circle because another airliner had requested an emergency landing before this one made the request and was given priority. (See: 'There's no fuel! We're going down! There's no radar!' Last words of Colombia crash pilot as he pleaded with air traffic controller for help are revealed by fellow airman)
Flight data shows how the jet circled around a number of times before the disaster after declaring an electrical failure.
The 1,900 mile flight path used by the doomed aircraft from Santa Cruz in Bolivia to Medellin was at edge of the jet's capacity, the Mirror reports.
The plane would ordinarily have needed to stop in Colombia's capital Bogota if it had run low on fuel. But the landing did not take place meaning the jet would have been very low on fuel as it approached Medellin.
It has been reported that the pilot was told that another aircraft had asked for landing priority because of its own on board problems.
The second aircraft was given permission to land while the jet carrying the Brazilian footballers was told to circle at 21,000ft, putting it third or fourth in line to land, according to local media.
If it's true that the cockpit crew decided to take a chance to fly right to the edge of the aircraft's fuel range then they're the only one to blame for the crash and loss of life.
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