From "Flight," (2012).
Posted on 05/24/2018 8:40:58 AM PDT by BBell
I’m surprised only three Passengers died in that crash.
How that Plane stayed in one piece is amazing.
In my best Soup Nazi voice, no Movie for you!
“That’s a pretty short landing! If the engines were off, how did it stop so short?”
Soft field landing. Really soft field. Probably nearly ripped the gear off.
No movie?.............Waterworld?......................
We were living in Fort Walton Beach at that time and some time later received an envelope that obviously been very wet. I often wondered if it came off that plane.
WOW!!
Thank you both for the information!
At what altitude? Do you recall?
There were no deaths in the TACA levee landing. All safe.
The three deaths occurred in a different TACA crash in the next article down. Empty aircraft, crew perished.
I live in Fort Walton Beach now.
It’s normal...................
I saw a show about this. The pilot was a man of steel.
Sully tough!
We saw this on Smithsonian Channel........Air Disasters. We love it even though it’s hard to watch sometime but the investigators get to the bottom of it and that in itself is awesome.
Glad it missed.
White people make some pretty cool sh!t!
From "Flight," (2012).
Rolling friction on the grass???
Soil compaction from the planes weight upon the landing gear applied the brakes—lucky the gear held up under that load. Better to conduct a forced landing/crash on concrete than soft soil—perhaps a field of tall corn...
The pilot also had only 1 eye!
FTA: Captain of the flight, Carlos Dardano of El Salvador, had lost one eye to crossfire on a short flight to El Salvador, which was undergoing a civil war at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110
I read that. He lost his eye to rebel gunfire. I did not know that you would be allowed to be a commercial pilot with only one eye.
He just asks the co-pilot what he sees when he needs to know....
The National Airlines 727 that crashed into the Ocean off Pensacola that killed three people is the one I was referencing .
There is a good post in the comments section where the person talks about the recovery of the aircraft.
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