Posted on 06/02/2014 5:08:42 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
United Flight 1637 was returning off-duty Air Force Captain Mike Gongol, his family and 157 other souls from their Christmas vacation when disaster struck.
The Boeing 737's pilot suffered a devastating heart attack at 30,000 feet on the way from Des Moines to Denver, forcing Gongol to rush to the cockpit and help guide the plane to an emergency landing.
His heroic actions have gone unheralded until now, as Gongol recalls the dramatic moment he answered the chilling announcement on the December 30 flight, 'Does anyone know how to fly a plane?'
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RE: Fix Bayonets
Or belong to Lewis Millet’S Company E 2nd Battalion 27th regiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Millett
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
There’s also pilots deadheading to an airport to pick up their flight. But yeah, needed that second person on the deck to help out.
/johnny
How many people even have bayonets these days?
(I’ve got three).
If this is a problem, then that F.O. doesn't need to be in that job any more.
It's an airport.
It has a runway or three.
Land the friggin' airplane! It doesn't have to be pretty - you can break it if you really have to - but land the plane!
Thanks I will have to look that up later
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
What I thought was funny was the notion that the FO needed the Bomber Pilot to “talk her through the landing” at Omaha.
Um...right. Like she couldn’t just read the chart.
But I have a crapload of kitchen knives and a bunch of duct tape.
Never piss off a cook.
/johnny
It’s just the reporters. They literally have no clue.
Fact omitted from the story: when first arriving in the cockpit, Capt. Gongol’s first words were “Where are the other two throttles?”.
Whoa!
Yep. It might be a good idea to have someone calm to read the frigging chart for her, and plug in all the frequencies.
/johnny
And your knives are probably sharper than my bayonets.
Neither Bob Pearson nor Maurice Qintal had ever landed where they landed on July 23, 1983.
It was a dead-stick landing, necessitated by "fuel exhaustion due to maintenance error". The "airport" was a closed Canadian airbase that Quintal remembered from his days in the service. Part of it had been converted into a drag strip.
Last Friday, Southwest Flight Attendant: “Fasten your seatbelts, the pilot mentioned he wants to try something new today.”
I had forgotten aboot that exciting dead stick landing!
Air Medal maybe. More likely, what promises to be the fastest, easiest pilot interview United will ever give.
At the rank of O-4 (Captain, USAF), one has to wonder whether he hadn't read the -1 on most of the commercial fleet, in anticipation of not seeking O-5 (Major).
Discussing anything involving other service rank with Navy is dang awkward. Just had to say that.
/johnny
I know better. I'm out for the night. Be back when I'm not fighting an infection.
/johnny
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