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May 24, 1988: The day a Boeing 737 almost crashed in New Orleans East(Pictures)
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| 5/24/18
| Melinda Morris
Posted on 05/24/2018 8:40:58 AM PDT by BBell
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Nice Landing! A good pilot and a lucky pilot.
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posted on
05/24/2018 8:40:58 AM PDT
by
BBell
Anyone know how you would get the plane out of where it’s at?
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posted on
05/24/2018 8:42:09 AM PDT
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: BBell
They toughened up the levee a little and flew it out of there.
I saw a show about this. The pilot was a man of steel.
Sully tough!
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posted on
05/24/2018 8:43:13 AM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Conan the Librarian
Saw the same show.The pilot had a real pair!
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posted on
05/24/2018 8:44:33 AM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
To: BBell
love the coloring in those old photos
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posted on
05/24/2018 8:46:00 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: BBell
Just curious but how did they get the plane out of there?
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posted on
05/24/2018 8:46:53 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: Conan the Librarian; MeganC
They toughened up the levee a little and flew it out of there. I saw a show about this. The pilot was a man of steel. Sully tough!Any idea what the show was called? Did they let the same pilot that landed it fly it out?
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posted on
05/24/2018 8:54:08 AM PDT
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: MeganC
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posted on
05/24/2018 8:54:34 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: BBell
May 8th 1978, National Airlines Flight 193 lands in Pensacola Bay, just a little short of the runway.............
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posted on
05/24/2018 8:57:46 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
To: PapaBear3625
Thanks for that link! They got 28 more years of service out of that plane. Awesome!
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posted on
05/24/2018 8:58:50 AM PDT
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: Red Badger
I must have missed the Movie they made about that Pilot.
Off to Wikipedia to get the details.
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posted on
05/24/2018 9:02:55 AM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(The only good Commie is a dead Commie. Cast your Vote Accordingly.)
To: BBell
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posted on
05/24/2018 9:05:35 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: BBell
The show is called Air Disasters and is on the Smithsonian Channel. I don't know the episode title.
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posted on
05/24/2018 9:06:01 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Kickass Conservative
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posted on
05/24/2018 9:09:29 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
To: Dr. Ursus; Conan the Librarian; Red Badger; Kickass Conservative; MeganC
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posted on
05/24/2018 9:11:29 AM PDT
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: BBell
That’s a pretty short landing! If the engines were off, how did it stop so short?
PS. I’m a pilot.
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posted on
05/24/2018 9:11:40 AM PDT
by
US_MilitaryRules
(I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
To: BBell
This was at the Michoud Assembly Facility. Happened a year after I transferred to KSC in Florida. Apparently they did a short load of fuel to keep the weight down to be as light as they could then flew it from Michoud to Lake Front Airport a few miles away. One of the roads is fairly long and was used to transport the External Tank to a barge dock for shipment to KSC to be used on the Space Shuttle. Not the first plane to land there but certainly the first passenger plane to.
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posted on
05/24/2018 9:13:51 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: smokingfrog
I remember when they hired an Mi-26 to get those Chinooks of the Afghan mountain. I watched the video. Awesome helicopter.
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posted on
05/24/2018 9:15:54 AM PDT
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: BBell
In the bottom picture you can see the covered barge at the Michoud dock that was used to transport the External Tank to KSC in FL. Rode it several times.
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posted on
05/24/2018 9:16:30 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: US_MilitaryRules
Drag on the wheels from the wet grass?
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posted on
05/24/2018 9:16:56 AM PDT
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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