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One of the reasons I wear real footwear when traveling by air.
Posted on 02/20/2025 9:58:19 AM PST by Enterprise
“I have given up driving with my wife, as she thinks she can do it from the passenger seat.”
Are you, too, in competition with me as I try to sell my full set of encyclopedias because our wives know everything? ;-)
So both this crash and the midair one in DC involved women flying the plane or helicopter.
From the video from the plane on the taxi way it appears that the landing gear collapsed, flipped up into the wing base, cut the fuel line while breaking the wing off.
If that’s the case it’s more of a maintaince or design issue.
Commercial airlines will NOT hire him because (they say) he has no experience flying commercial aircraft. The real reason (we suspect) is his color and gender. He understands that someone who flew for the US Navy or Air Force is going to beat him out for an opening since he lacks a military background.
The broken landing gear is a symptom of the incorrect landing, not the cause. That pilot came in too fast, dropped too fast, and didn't flare, exceeding what the landing gear could withstand.
It was an all female crew. We’ve known why it crashed from day 1. Why? It was an all female crew.
Delta Adds A Little Hanging Tennis Ball To End Of Runway For Female Pilots
https://babylonbee.com/news/delta-adds-a-little-hanging-tennis-ball-to-the-end-of-the-runway-for-female-pilots
That’s a good one - an excellent landing is one where you can use the plane again.
While I do not doubt it could easily be true, I’m waiting for some sort of official confirmation.
I did some research. Less than 8% of certified pilots are women. Obviously 100% of them are not qualified skill wise to pilot a commercial passenger aircraft. Same for men. But the pool of candidates when insisting on all or mostly women then becomes pretty small.
It makes me wonder if their standards were not as demanding as needed in order do the DEI thing.
That was a crash of a DC-10 in an Iowa (unsure of state) cornfield, they lost total rudder/elevator control.
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And an excellent one is when you can use the plane again.
I got frustrated with my wife & begged her to drive. Nope, won’t do it.
Remember - the flight deck crew is the first at the scene of an accident.
That's 1500 hours to be eligible to get the certificate. They don't hand it to you automatically just because you've accumulated 1500 hours, you still have to pass the ATP written exams and checkride. And the ATP checkride is hard as nails!!!! It's the toughest checkride their is because the FAA knows it's the gateway to passenger air carrier service.
In the ATP multi-engine land ride you spend about 80% of the ride with One Engine Inop. So what you're really doing is taking a commercial instrument checkride with only one engine operational (which drastically affects a/c dynamics). It's the worst-case scenario because you're demonstrating the ability to safely continue the flight even when you've got one engine out.
I'm not saying this WASN'T pilot error. In fact, based on the video I saw, there was NO FLARE at touchdown. No noticeable change in pitch attitude at all that I could see, which is begging for a hard landing.
But when she passed her ATP ride her flying skills HAD TO BE honed to razor's edge. So regardless what this idiot reporter would have you believe, the fact she might have only got her ATP a short time ago is not in itself indicative of a possible cause of the crash.
The reporter has latched on to something he thought might be inflammatory so he ran with it. And if you believed him, that's a lick on you for not having figured out the press is rarely to be trusted, especially in matters of aviation.
Cool your jets and wait to see what the NTSB comes up with before you string her up.
Those landing struts are made hell for stout and should not have collapsesed for any of those reasons.
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One of the reasons I wear real footwear when traveling by air.
And an excellent one is when you can use the plane again.Spoken like a test pilot. 😉👍
I thought you were talking about the Gimli Glider.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Which was pretty damn amazing.
Then I found this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232
Gimli turned out much better.
Regarding UA232, I understand rotating machinery better than most, never liked sitting between the engines on MD80s and similar, etc.
One of the reasons I wear real footwear when traveling by air.That's why I wear scuba fins when we're traveling over the ocean. 😎
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