Another Aviation Non Story

[Garry Russell]

I wish people would get a grip on reality

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14906539

[DavidK]

It's all those turbines, Garry, funnelling the wind up Leeds' way. Perhaps they should just close the airport, eh?

Sounded as though the person least perturbed was the toddler!

David

[FlyTexas]

The scariest part of the whole story was the color of the woman's hair.

Brian

[Garry Russell]

It's like these You Tube vids where the slightest bump is a heavy landing or the worst

[Paul K]

The scariest part of the whole story was the color of the woman's hair.

Brian

[basys]

Hi Folks

The scariest part of the whole story was the color of the woman's hair.

Naaaahhh......
Surely the writing down the back of her neck.

Visible @ 1:53

ATB
Paul

[Garry Russell]

back in the late '60s a friend of ours was in a British United Herald trying to land in Guernsey from Southampton

Three times they got one wheel on the runway and then aborted before finally diverting back to Southampton. This sort of thing happened now and then.

As for her flight, after a few hours the wind dropped a bit and they took off again to make another roller coaster decent before getting three sets on the deck.

It was looked at as just one of those things, almost a bit of an adventure.

This was at a time when civil airliner accidents in Europe were still fairly common, yet no one talked about the screams of passengers and the "I thought we were going to die" stuff we get now with the slightest deviation from perceived normality.

[JohnWillimas]

I'm reminded of my one emergency exit from an aircraft. This involved fuel in the tail pipe of a 748 which ignited on start up at Leeds Bradford. Can't remember the operator but we were flying to Edinburgh. The new stewardess tasked with evacuating the plane ran the length of the cabin, opened the passenger door and followed it out in one easy action. She hung on to it for a while before she fell, cartoon like, to hit the runway below. The rest of us had to jump, trying to avoid the flames being blown back by the still-running prop and the prone stewardess. No screams or OMG's in 1972 (or thereabouts) of course. The stewardess was the only one hurt - possibly because she was wearing blue suede platform soled boots (funny the things we remember ) - she broke her ankle I think.

One of the other flight crew remarked afterwards that we'd cleared the aircraft faster than they'd done it in practice. I'm guessing they didn't actually set fire to the plane in practice.