This image does not show a Boeing 747 of any sort. Anyone with even two functioning brain cells can determine that ...
Posted on 11/08/2010 6:43:08 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
A large commercial airplane flies low and slow over Willis Tower, causing curiosity and sudden fear among the crowd of people walking on downtown streets.
Did the pilot veer off course? Or was the flight path intentional?
With the public's nerves frayed over homeland security concerns, the sight of the plane would surely bring to mind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, as well as recent attempts by terrorists to place explosives aboard passenger and cargo planes.
"It was flying so low that everyone on the street stopped to stare," one observer e-mailed the Tribune after the incident one morning last month. "I was walking down Jackson Boulevard at the Chicago River when I saw the plane flying directly east, right past Willis Tower. It was way too close for comfort."
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
” That’s not a 747. That one has two engines near the tail. The 747 has four engines under the wings. “
Hey - at least they didn’t call it an AK47...
(be thankful for the small miracles... ;))
Maybe there is more sotry here:
The FAA said the FIRST plane was a 747, etc, etc, etc.
THIS plane is NOT a 747.
I sure would like to hope that the FAA knows the difference.!!!
Were there 2 planes ? More?
“That’s a negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.”
When did Boeing decide to take the four engines off the wing and put two on the rear? I must have missed that design change.
These folks should avoid Seattle. The Sea-tac and Boeing Field approaches from the north are ridiculously low over and next to the city.
Albuquerque International Airport is much the same way - the north-south approach brings ‘em right over the city, and low enough to count rivets some 5 miles out...
Ya get used to it.... ;)
Well, at least this time it wasn’t Air Force One. We know they are in Asia somewhere, taking the King on another vacation jaunt at an obscene cost to the taxpayer.
Here’s a link to a 747 landing. It has a copyright, I am not sure if it can shown.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/1252724/L/
It's couldn't be that...Chicago has outlawed all personal defense weapons, so no one would have one.
Hate to break it to the FAA but that is an S80 not a 747.
This image does not show a Boeing 747 of any sort. Anyone with even two functioning brain cells can determine that ...
It’s a 747 ghetto version; the equivalent of a low rider. If you look closely, you can see the pilot sitting really low in the cockpit with a blue bandanna on his head.
Tet all over again. Democrats don't know how to win a war because too much of their base thinks it is not justifiable under any circumstances.
The caption below the photo: Photo (November 4, 2010) doesn't identify the aircraft; which appears to be an MD-80 series, pictured. It simply states when the photo was taken. The excerpt from the article, in italics, describes a different aircraft. The article itself, which you obviously didn't read, describes a number of different aircraft; both narrow and wide body, flying over Willis Tower.
Proudly Posting without reading the Article since 1998!
I'm surprised that you, along with many others, were so easily confused by the post and failed to read the article.
No. The caption below the photo doesn't identify the aircraft pictured.
The excerpt, in italics, quite obviously describes a different aircraft.
The caption doesn't identify it as a 747.
Were there 2 planes ? More?
Read the article.
You've missed a lot on this thread.
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