Nice Landing! A good pilot and a lucky pilot.







1 posted on
05/24/2018 8:40:58 AM PDT by
BBell
Anyone know how you would get the plane out of where it’s at?
2 posted on
05/24/2018 8:42:09 AM PDT by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: BBell
love the coloring in those old photos
5 posted on
05/24/2018 8:46:00 AM PDT by
Bob434
To: BBell
Just curious but how did they get the plane out of there?
6 posted on
05/24/2018 8:46:53 AM PDT by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: BBell


May 8th 1978, National Airlines Flight 193 lands in Pensacola Bay, just a little short of the runway.............
9 posted on
05/24/2018 8:57:46 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
To: BBell
That’s a pretty short landing! If the engines were off, how did it stop so short?
PS. I’m a pilot.
16 posted on
05/24/2018 9:11:40 AM PDT by
US_MilitaryRules
(I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
To: BBell
In the bottom picture you can see the covered barge at the Michoud dock that was used to transport the External Tank to KSC in FL. Rode it several times.
19 posted on
05/24/2018 9:16:30 AM PDT by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: BBell
30 posted on
05/24/2018 10:08:12 AM PDT by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
To: BBell
It could have been worse:

From "Flight," (2012).
33 posted on
05/24/2018 10:25:11 AM PDT by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: BBell
The pilot also had only 1 eye!
FTA: Captain of the flight, Carlos Dardano of El Salvador, had lost one eye to crossfire on a short flight to El Salvador, which was undergoing a civil war at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110
To: BBell
There is a good post in the comments section where the person talks about the recovery of the aircraft.
To: BBell
**Dardano told the tower he planned to make a 360-degree turn, head back toward Lake Borgne.....**
Some reporter must have gotten his facts wrong. After a 360 degree turn, they wouldn’t be going back.
45 posted on
05/24/2018 6:05:57 PM PDT by
Zuriel
(Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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