WHAT HAPPENED ON FLIGHT 17? (UPDATED: NO MISSILE, JUST BIRDS)

Michelle Malkin ^ | 9/18/05 | Michelle Malkin

[Prime Choice]

BTW, Al Gore is gay.

After seeing Tipper, I don't think that's a rumor...

;o)

[frankjr]

"had some people whose flight was delayed on the tarmac for over an hour."

Sounds like an improvement over normal wait times.

[Prime Choice]

I feel as though I owe you for you are doing all of my footwork and saving me from many posts! ; )

You kiddin' me? This was the most fun lead-up to a punchline I've had in a long, long time!   :o)

Tell ya what. I'll buy you your beverage of choice, you buy me my beverage of choice, we'll toast and call it even. Deal?   :o)

[Yasotay]

My post 35 links printed transcripts of at least 6 different missile sightings by pilots in the NYC area, not even including TWA800. BTW, did you know that TWA800 once was actually hit by lightning ...that lightning went through 4 fuel tanks (including the center tank) and no explosion .... after 9-11 .... congressional panels don't mean much. Close the issue .... I agree ..... let the pilots talk on the record to Michelle Malkin.

[EGPWS]

Tell ya what. I'll buy you your beverage of choice, you buy me my beverage of choice, we'll toast and call it even. Deal? :o)

St. Pauli Girl....

If THAT doesn't work, then 2 double Martini's in one glass!

It isn't a deal if your choice is more expensive....

LMAO!

[Prime Choice]

My only poison is gourmet coffee...either Kona or Jamaican Blue Mountain.

Enjoying some Kauai and Ethiopian right now. Makes me grind my teeth and feel good, too. Zeet!

[EGPWS]

My post 35 links printed transcripts of at least 6 different missile sightings by pilots in the NYC area, not even including TWA800. BTW, did you know that TWA800 once was actually hit by lightning ...that lightning went through 4 fuel tanks (including the center tank) and no explosion .... after 9-11 .... congressional panels don't mean much. Close the issue .... I agree ..... let the pilots talk on the record to Michelle Malkin.

FWIW, lightning IMO isn't an issue that is forefront in flight safety, however I have billed out repairs to aircraft owners for $100,000 in one shot because of electronic damage and required inspection of engines because of lightning strikes, however lightning strikes to be an immediate safety of flight issue is rare.

I place my opinions on my 30 years of Aviation experience and my toting of a distrust in media ability to report accurately on the spur of the moment in general.

Flight 800, IMO is a questionable synopsis only, post debacle and although wiring in the fuel tank is a viable cause, it is a cause I place low on the list of causes.

This however should not show me as a "knee jerk" reactionary to the likes of bird strikes who totes a paranoid mindset to government.

I'm just too seasoned to fall for such dribble.

[EGPWS]

My only poison is gourmet coffee...either Kona or Jamaican Blue Mountain.

Kona Coffee?

I insist that YOU owe me!

Send me some!!!

I'll give up the Pauli and martini for such a winning prize! : )

[ASOC]

Interesting set of postings.
May I ask? Do you know what a MANPAD shot looks like coming at you?

I would believe the pilot had seen a SAM in his lifetime - if ex-military. The chance of a passenger having seen (a known SAM shot) would be rare, to say the least. A MANPAD is much smaller than a SAM and would be hard to see from the air, from the ground the smoke trail is a bit distinctive....

[frankjr]

"Do you know what a MANPAD shot looks like coming at you?"

No, but I know what a MANBAG shot looks like coming at me. Some gay guy at the office got pissed at me and tried to belt me with his "purse". I reported it to the proper authorities.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Airplane:

"He's a menace to himself and everything else in the air ... yes ... birds too."

Hehe. That comedy is so rich I forgot that one, although I do remember the drinking problem.

[softwarecreator]

That comedy is so rich

I know.  It's one of the few movies I've seen where you could watch it 20 times and find something funny that you missed.