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Air France Aircraft on Fire at Pearson Airport (Toronto) (Update: Minor injuries)
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| Aug 2 2005
Posted on 08/02/2005 1:28:25 PM PDT by mitchbert
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To: GMMAC
How are you going to get home?
According to the CBC, all of Toronto is in gridlock.
Which brings up the question of what it would be like if there were a terrorist attack.....?
741
posted on
08/02/2005 4:18:32 PM PDT
by
fanfan
(" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
To: Daus
This picture, taken from freelance footage, shows the plane just before it erupted into flames.
742
posted on
08/02/2005 4:18:41 PM PDT
by
michigander
(The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
To: WestCoastGal
It was proposed to move it to El Toro when the Marine Base closed, but the citizens of Mission Viejo won the battle and that area will become houses/condos/offices/shopping etc. Have they finally settled that? It breaks my heart to see my last duty station lying in disrepair.
743
posted on
08/02/2005 4:18:42 PM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: SandyInSeattle
But what if it's the pilot's time?!LOL. True dat, Boo.
744
posted on
08/02/2005 4:18:47 PM PDT
by
radiohead
(Proud member of the 'arrogant supermagt')
To: steveegg
I imagine these airports are now surrounded by so much other stuff that they will not be able to expand that buffer zone.
Like I just posted above, some airports have wanted to relocate but no one wants them in another neighborhood. When Denver put in their new airport, which was quite a way outside of town, everyone complained about the time it took to drive there. Can't win either way I guess.
I guess the main question here besides the buffer zone especially at the end of runway is whether they should have landed in the weather that was reported as dreadful.
745
posted on
08/02/2005 4:18:49 PM PDT
by
WestCoastGal
(Junebugism: "There is definitely a lot to it that will be understood down the road as it unfolds")
To: Central Scrutiniser
You want the wings to flex! I've been on some flexi winged 747's!I've never been on a 747...thanks for the warning.
I don't like wings to flex the way the Airbus wings flex/shudder/shimmy.
Maybe my distrust of some planes has something to do with this accident which happened a mile from my house when I was a young teenager.
We thought the Russians had blown up/bombed Argonne National Labs. Many of the volunteer fireman in my town later died, fairly young, of heart attacks.
I've liked flying enough to have worked for UAL (reservations) for a year.
746
posted on
08/02/2005 4:19:19 PM PDT
by
syriacus
(Embryos -- Special enough that researchers want a lot of them; not special enough to deserve to live)
To: Vicomte13
Thats interesting, but my instructor did yours one better. He always said " Every Pilot that took off has always landed! but some of them haven't taken off again." Just a thought,but flying is very serious and very unforgiving.
To: Warren_Piece
Believe it or not there was an incident similar to the LAX incident at the New Orleans airport sometime back, also with a perp. of Middle Eastern descent.
To: SandyInSeattle; Brad's Gramma; Ernest_at_the_Beach
We had discussed that in conjunction with some other news story a while back here. I'm pinging who I thought told me that was settled.
Pinging for news on El Toro Marine Base decision. Shopping mall vs Airport??
749
posted on
08/02/2005 4:22:03 PM PDT
by
WestCoastGal
(Junebugism: "There is definitely a lot to it that will be understood down the road as it unfolds")
To: Petronski
i don't think airfrance or lufthansa EITHER have any boeings left... i suspect the last ones they had were 747 and went from there to airbus...
750
posted on
08/02/2005 4:22:42 PM PDT
by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: michigander
Exit doors wide open. It is amazing that that many people were able to get out before the fire engulfed the fuslage. It makes me feel better about surviving such a crash.
To: steveegg; MeekOneGOP
You mean there was a time before Viking Kitties?
752
posted on
08/02/2005 4:24:19 PM PDT
by
fanfan
(" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
To: mhking
"...Who pissed in your Wheaties this morning?"
Apparently, me??
To: U S Army EOD
The wings droping off is not the problem, the aircraft dropping off of the wings is the problem.LOL
754
posted on
08/02/2005 4:26:18 PM PDT
by
syriacus
(Embryos -- Special enough that researchers want a lot of them; not special enough to deserve to live)
To: WestCoastGal
What really gets me is people that move into a neighborhood with an airport in it, and then complain about the noise.
755
posted on
08/02/2005 4:28:15 PM PDT
by
steveegg
(Real torture is taking a ride with Sen Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy in a 1968 Oldsmobile off a short bridge)
To: GMMAC
BTW, is it OK to now raise the possibility that the Air France plane simply surrendered upon touchdown?LOL! That's what my husband said on the way home...I said it was amazing if everyone managed to get out of that plane OK, and he said running away is what the french do best.
756
posted on
08/02/2005 4:28:47 PM PDT
by
fanfan
(" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
To: fanfan; MeekOneGOP
You mean there was a time before Viking Kitties? Yes, but only because they weren't known as Viking Kitties back then :-)
757
posted on
08/02/2005 4:29:34 PM PDT
by
steveegg
(Real torture is taking a ride with Sen Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy in a 1968 Oldsmobile off a short bridge)
To: fanfan
You mean there was a time before Viking Kitties? They weren't even a gleam in their parents eyes.
758
posted on
08/02/2005 4:29:37 PM PDT
by
michigander
(The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
To: WestCoastGal
I Miss the Air Shows from El Toro.
My wife grew up in El Toro, (now Lake Forest), and when I was down at Pendleton, I used to love parking on the nearby roads in Irvine, before all the buildings went up, and watching the jets take off. (80's)
When the Air Shows were in town, the Blue's would fly right over her house more than a few times.
Now I take my kids to Miramar for the same fix.
They should have closed John Wayne, built up El Toro for more capacity, and all would have been good. But Property values in that area of Orange County seem to take precedence for the developers and the eco-nuts.
759
posted on
08/02/2005 4:33:15 PM PDT
by
Sonar5
(60+ Million have Spoken Clearly - "We Want Our Country Back")
To: dfwgator
The airport authority who gave the presser said the good result was because they were prepared for any emergency.
He refused to even suggest it was a miracle there were no fatalities.
760
posted on
08/02/2005 4:36:59 PM PDT
by
OldFriend
(MERCY TO THE GUILTY IS CRUELTY TO THE INNOCENT ~ Adam Smith)
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