[smonk]

---I'm on the phone with my boyfriend who is an aeronautical engineer and he says this isn't good at all. Play for these people and their poor families who might be watching this right now. I can't imagine anything worse.---

your boyfriend must be a freshman.

honestly, barring something unforseen, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being getting food poisoning from the in flight meal, and 10 being flying into the side of a mountain at full throttle, this is about a 2

[Oberon]

...barring something unforseen...

It's that "something unforseen" that always gets you.

[Lorraine]

Not a freshman. He's a MIT graduate and retired. I was talking to him on the phone while he was driving and gave him wrong info. I told him it was the main landing gear. Once he got home and saw it was the front landing gear he gave it much better chances. Thank goodness, you are right. These folks do have a good chance of survival.