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China Eastern plane aborts landing as traffic controllers take a nap
Reuters ^ | 19 Aug 2014

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

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: aviation; china; chinaeastern; sumtingwong

1 posted on 08/19/2014 9:23:45 PM PDT by george76
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Sum Ting Wong


2 posted on 08/19/2014 9:44:14 PM PDT by Ken H
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Sum Ting is Very Wong


3 posted on 08/19/2014 10:02:53 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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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.

4 posted on 08/19/2014 10:50:19 PM PDT by Mark17 (Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
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Wi Tu Loh!
5 posted on 08/20/2014 6:26:44 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party policy;Lie,deny,refuse to comply)
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6 posted on 08/20/2014 6:27:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: george76
I worked the night shift (midnight-8AM) in a large hospital's ER for a few months.It was damn hard...DAMN hard...to stay awake and alert.
7 posted on 08/20/2014 6:28:44 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party policy;Lie,deny,refuse to comply)
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