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Asiana Pilot Says a Flash of Light Blinded Him Just Before Landing
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| 7/10/2013
| Katrina Schwartz
Posted on 07/10/2013 7:09:15 PM PDT by knak
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:09:15 PM PDT
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knak
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To: knak
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:11:50 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: knak
I’ve read about scumbags who’ve shined laser beams into the eyes of pilots departing or arriving at an airport.
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:11:55 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
To: knak
Other stories online are suggesting it could have been a laser.
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:12:00 PM PDT
by
knak
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing)
To: knak
Just his career imploding.
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:12:21 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: knak
Could be true. I seem to recall some years ago when several commercial pilots complained of laser beams coming throgh the cockpit into their eyes.
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:12:34 PM PDT
by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: knak
The film showed another aircraft heading in the opposite direction (I think) very nearby. Reflection maybe?
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:12:39 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: knak
“It is unknown at this time why the doors inflated inside the aircraft.”
After watching the video of the plane crashing, it is amazing any of the doors opened at all.
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:13:52 PM PDT
by
21twelve
("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
To: knak
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:14:39 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: MichaelCorleone; Gay State Conservative; knak
Laser beam? Unlikely. This happened during the daylight hours. How would the person know how to direct the laser beam without being able to see the beam was going?
To: cripplecreek
That’s what I thought: the flash of realization that he really screwed up, and he and 300+ people might die as a result.
In other words, an “oh, s***,” moment.
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:15:31 PM PDT
by
justlurking
(tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
To: null and void
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:16:30 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(.......Uber Alice!.......)
To: 21twelve
After watching the video of the plane crashing, it is amazing any of the doors opened at all. Agreed. The airframe was stressed well beyond the point where any reasonable person would expect anything to work!
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:16:40 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: knak
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:17:12 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: justlurking
By the time they realized they were in trouble it was already too late and a flash wouldn’t have made much difference.
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:17:26 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: knak
The aircraft was substantially too high and then too low and slow before “the light” ever shone — it was a terrible approach and the light wasn’t to blame for the crash.
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:17:33 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
To: knak
the light was an epiphany..that the last thing he will be qualified to drive will be a BMX bike
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:18:06 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
To: knak
A flash of light on a bright, sunny day?
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:18:59 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
To: knak
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posted on
07/10/2013 7:19:04 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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