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Midway: Southwest Plane Crashes through fence.
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Posted on 12/08/2005 5:37:35 PM PST by sharkhawk

A plane has apparently crashed through a fence at Midway airport in Chicago. Southwest airline 737 plane now sitting in intersection of 55th and Central. Channel 7 has confirmed, fire and ambulances on way. Details still sketchy.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aviation; bushsfault; chicago; chicagomidwayairport; flight1248; hatewhenthathappens; illinois; kmdw; mdw; oops; planecrash; swa; zaucenter
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To: Moose4
Better yet,,, you can go to ( Flightlevel350.com ) and watch actual videos of planes landing at that airport.
301 posted on 12/08/2005 10:50:21 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: Moose4

http://www.flightlevel350.com/viewer.php?id=765


302 posted on 12/08/2005 10:51:19 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
Boeing 747-300 series
303 posted on 12/08/2005 10:56:42 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: xrp

In those pictures, you see the beach , but, after they had the hurricane last year, only about a 3 feet band of sand is still there, and the rest is a bunch of hugh rocks that make up the beach now.


304 posted on 12/08/2005 11:03:45 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: Warriormom

Does anyone? The chances of that happening are so tiny that changing the Wright Admendment would have virtually no effect on it. Far, far higher odds that you'll die while driving to work tomorrow on a dry road in good weather. So should we refrain from driving "for the children"? That was basically the argument put forth that I responded to.


305 posted on 12/08/2005 11:07:28 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: SamAdams76

http://www.flightlevel350.com/viewer.php?id=2708


306 posted on 12/08/2005 11:19:47 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: SamAdams76

http://www.flightlevel350.com/viewer.php?id=2351


307 posted on 12/08/2005 11:23:35 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: XHogPilot
The best description is a paved-over gravel bed that will stop an airplane overshooting the runway.

Do such systems not rip the landing gear off planes? To be sure, ripping the landing gear off a plane might be a minor thing compared to letting it crash into a gas station, but it would seem that there would be no controlability beyond the fact that the thing would stop. A cable would seem to offer much greater control.

308 posted on 12/08/2005 11:29:09 PM PST by supercat (Sony delinda est.)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

http://www.flightlevel350.com/viewer.php?id=1534


309 posted on 12/08/2005 11:32:37 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: Petronski

http://www.flightlevel350.com/viewer.php?id=208


310 posted on 12/08/2005 11:43:12 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: Petronski
Lol, that would make a great episode
311 posted on 12/08/2005 11:49:01 PM PST by TeleStraightShooter (When Frist exercises his belated Constitutional "Byrd option", Reid will have a "Nuclear Reaction".)
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To: JWojack; fortunecookie
Just as an update, the original flight # 8804 was cancelled and reassigned as flight # 8806. It was apparently permitted to go directly to Midway, and arrived there at 3:12 AM. I don't know why the flight number was changed, other than maybe the change in destination from O'Hare to Midway.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/SWA8806
312 posted on 12/09/2005 2:30:58 AM PST by Turbopilot (Nothing in the above post is or should be construed as legal research, analysis, or advice.)
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To: sharkhawk

I've flown into and out of Midway on Southwest about 6 or 8 times, all within 3 months of 9/11. The folks at Southwest were great. I like Midway, too.


313 posted on 12/09/2005 4:17:47 AM PST by syriacus (People who seem "nutty" can STILL be dangerous bombers -- Edw. Leary firebombed NYC subway 1994)
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To: lizma
Did you grow up in East Chicago? I seem to remember that.

Close -- Gary.

314 posted on 12/09/2005 5:08:50 AM PST by mhking (The world needs a wake up call gentlemen...we're gonna phone it in.)
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To: Turbopilot

That Flightaware site is just the slickest thing. If you go check out the flightpath for SWA1248, you can see where it got stacked up in a holding pattern southeast of Midway for several turns before coming in on approach.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/SWA1248

That link will only show last night's flight until today's SWA1248 flies (if it does with that number).

}:-)4


315 posted on 12/09/2005 5:12:30 AM PST by Moose4 (Liberals and vampires: Both like death, both hate crosses, and both are bloodsuckers.)
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To: txroadkill

We use the auto brakes on all 5 models of 737 at Continental, and they work very well.


316 posted on 12/09/2005 6:02:20 AM PST by AmericanDave (Woe is the Income Tax......)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Looks like you had your wipers going... trying to hover?


317 posted on 12/09/2005 6:07:47 AM PST by AmericanDave (Woe is the Income Tax......)
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To: AmericanDave
This morning, all the media calling it a fatal plane crash.

Kind of sad to make such a headline when that's not exactly what happened last night. Tragic that a child lost his life, but the media would do well to be more honest with less hype.

318 posted on 12/09/2005 6:14:25 AM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Yes over 42,000 automobile fatalaties a year in the U.S.


319 posted on 12/09/2005 6:20:00 AM PST by AmericanDave (Woe is the Income Tax......)
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To: sharkhawk

Prediction - it will come out that either the pilot or air traffic controller who normally is involved in this flight/landing is in the National Guard and in Iraq. Thus, it will be Bush's fault this tragedy happened.

You wait.


320 posted on 12/09/2005 6:41:14 AM PST by GianniV
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