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To: naturalman1975

Getting a plane back on the ground is routine assuming you didn’t create an even more serious emergency because of an oversight. These guys were just lucky they didn’t kill 275 souls.


5 posted on 12/19/2009 2:11:47 PM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: saganite

The ATSB does not regard these pilots as having a routine flight and landing. They are reportedly pretty angry that the the Captain and First Officer were forced to resign considering the job they did. This plane took out the boundary fence of the airport, it went over houses at an altitude of bare metres above their roofs. I’m not a pilot, but many who were say they did an incredible job to avoid taking out hundreds on the ground as well as the ones in the air. They got it airborne, then flew at the lowest altitude they could as long as they could, to get airspeed so when they finally began their climb, they didn’t go straight into the ground.


7 posted on 12/19/2009 2:18:24 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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