Everyone is “safe”...nothing to see here...
Ca$h for clunkers candidate.
Weeeeee! Just like a sled ride!!
Lot of that going on today.......8^)
Just noting that when race has nothing to do with the story, add nothing of value to the narrative, it is included.
OTOH, change the story to one where the reader could use the information to avoid the scenario of the story, race will be absent.
Delta Flight 1086 now arriving at Gate 10...Gate 11...Gate 12...Gate 13.....
The oil pressure. I forgot to check the oil pressure! When Kramer hears about this, the s***’s going to hit the fan!
It could have been snow or it could have been racism. Did De Blasio blame it on that yet?
Plane skids off runway in a blizzard. Media awaits for NTSB to determine how this could possibly happen. LOL
I know little about LaGuardia (other than what I observed landing as a passenger a couple of times), but couldn’t New York City and the state greatly increase passenger safety, while at the same time eliminating a longtime scandal and drug-plagued correctional facility, by closing Rikers Island and extending both main LaGuardia runways over to the island? Build a new state-of-the-art prison out in the boondocks somewhere, demolish the old Rikers facilities (maybe leave some as a museum, like Alcatraz), then set the earth movers to work.
Well, that’s one way to cull the herd of aged airplanes. LaGuardia Airport is a nightmare on a good day.
Passenger to Delta agent: When do I get my bags?
Agent to passenger: There’ll be a $50 charge per bag for delivery today or a $50 charge for delivery tomorrow but there’s no charge if you allow our bag boys to go through it first. Which do you prefer?
They forgot to put the chains on before landing ?
That runway 13/31 at Laguardia essentially terminates at the SE end in a rock wall, once you exceed the overrun. Water is on the other side.
Good thing in a way they didn’t land on the 31 vector and overrun, as they would have gone in the water.
Good thing it stopped where it did.
Hard to tell from the pictures, BUT it kind looks like they just could not get the plane stopped in time and ran out of runway.
I wasn’t there, and I don’t know what really took place ...
SO IT IS TIME FOR ARMCHAIR PILOTING!!!
1. they landed too far down the runway.
2. ‘get there-itis’ prevented the PIC from executing a go-around
3. not enough traction to get braking power to slow the aircraft. (ie runways were not ready to receive aircraft)
4. Landed too frickin’ hot *Blueflag wonders what the winds were and what the cross wind component was...
5. 5H1T happens ...
The television coverage is unbelievable. It is a nothing story being made out like one of the worst disasters of the twentieth century.
I knew it was too soon for Wi Too Lo to start flying again.
One report said that the airport had plowed the runway just prior to the aircraft landing. The airport should have the capacity to conduct a friction test, called a mu test. This uses a vehicle with a fifth wheel that simulates an aircraft braking. The test produces a numerical value that can tell a pilot, based on his aircraft, weight, etc., how much friction he can expect on the runway. Prior to the aircraft landing, I wonder when the airport conducted a friction test of the landing runway.