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Airman spots aircraft fuel leak at 35,000 feet
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| May 14, 2009
| Tech. Sgt. Rey Ramon
Posted on 05/15/2009 2:19:54 PM PDT by microgood
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Great work by an alert airman saved a lot of lives.
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:19:54 PM PDT
by
microgood
To: microgood
"hear stories of Airmen saving lives in combat"
Anytime you leave the Earth's surface, you are involved in combat with gravity.
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:22:11 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: microgood
This guy’s a real hero. Emergency fields can be few and far between out over the Pacific.
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:22:45 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
To: microgood
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:23:40 PM PDT
by
SES1066
(Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
To: microgood
Smart Airline to do this for someone who just saved your bacon.
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:23:58 PM PDT
by
handy old one
(It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
To: microgood
“The captain said they would have never made it to Japan if it wasn't for him.”
Dayam!
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:24:07 PM PDT
by
ryan71
(Time to buy guns and ammo, People.)
To: microgood
Sergeant Bachleda said the captain and the crew were trying to figure out how the aircraft was losing 6,000 pounds of fuel an hour and then they knew exactly what was going on.Why were the crew still planning to fly to Japan while they were losing so much fuel? Their gauges were working properly, right? Am I missing something here?
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:25:39 PM PDT
by
thesharkboy
(<-- Looking for the silver lining in every cloud, since 1998)
To: SES1066
Already posted here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251649/posts
OOPS.
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:29:28 PM PDT
by
microgood
To: thesharkboy
Why were the crew still planning to fly to Japan while they were losing so much fuel? Their gauges were working properly, right? Am I missing something here?
Good point.
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:30:46 PM PDT
by
microgood
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To: microgood
He’s lucky he wasn’t arrested for interfering with the flight.
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:41:11 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: microgood
I’m surprised he wasn’t tazed and restrained for issuing terrorist threats and interferring with the refreshment cart.
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:41:29 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: microgood
Would never have gone feet wet if that much of a loss, at that rate were not figured out...
To: microgood
Wow. Several airliners in recent history have gone down over the ocean due to fuel starvation. They just saved the lives of all those aboard.
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:45:13 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
To: SES1066; microgood
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:46:34 PM PDT
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
To: microgood
So much crap news, thanks for a great positive post there microgood.
Good job. Thanks,
Trained gas attendant should know his job.
Check the oil sir?
To: F15Eagle
Reportedly, the fuel tanks never sealed up until the aircraft reached operating temperature in flight. It was done on purpose.Habu's off KAFB, or any other AFB had one priority after takeoff....the nearest tanker.
To: microgood
Almost an hour into the flight, he told a stewardess of the possible leak, but was given an unconcerned response. I got the same response on an occasion when I alerted a flight attendant on an America West flight that there was fluid streaming out of the engine casing.
She didn't figure it was important but I eventually insisted she got someone off the flight deck to come and look at it.
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:55:17 PM PDT
by
Wil H
(The most destructive act of Muslim terrorism against the US was paying for 0bama's Harvard education)
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