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Nice Landing! A good pilot and a lucky pilot.


1 posted on 05/24/2018 8:40:58 AM PDT by BBell
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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)
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To: BBell

love the coloring in those old photos


5 posted on 05/24/2018 8:46:00 AM PDT by Bob434
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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.)
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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.)
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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!)
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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?)
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To: BBell

Glad it missed.


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.)
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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)
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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


36 posted on 05/24/2018 11:43:24 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: BBell

There is a good post in the comments section where the person talks about the recovery of the aircraft.


40 posted on 05/24/2018 2:50:03 PM PDT by Clay Moore (MAGA)
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**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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