Posted on 07/11/2009 10:43:44 AM PDT by Justaham
WASHINGTON -- Skillful piloting may have prevented a disaster for President Obama and his campaign last summer, a former federal safety official said Friday.
A report released by the National Transportation Safety Board indicates an inflated slide may have pressed against critical control cables, forcing the emergency landing of Obama's campaign plane on July 7, 2008.
The slide inflated inside the tail cone of the campaign's McDonnell Douglas MD-81 shortly after takeoff from Chicago's Midway International Airport, the report said.
Investigators found evidence that the slide and a broken walkway railing inside the tail cone may have pressed against elevator cables that run the length of the plane. The cables are used to control whether the plane points up or down.
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If Rasmassan’s overall job-approval poll numbers provides any guide, I would say in spite of this outcome, in fact his plane *IS* still headed down...
This has hitlary clinton all over it
Hey, folks, I would love Obama to quit being our president, but please, let’s not wish death on him and his family.
Libs read this stuff, and use these kind of sentiments against us.
We’re better than this.
Ditto.
No comment....
I don’t want Obama’s plane to go down. First, I honestly don’t wish him dead. I just don’t want him in power. I’ll leave fantasies about enemy extermination to the left. Second, it would kill other innocent people. Third, if it happened now, we’d be talking about President Biden or President Pelosi. Not really an improvement.
HUH? You removed my comment because I said FReepers were wrong to wish Obama dead????
Collateral damage.
Strange, my comment was removed. All I said is that we should not wish Obama and his family dead, and that liberals use such sentiments against us.
Maybe the Moderator mixed my post up with another?
Looks like it just got restored.
Good for the pilots. I would expect nothing less of those professionals chosen to pilot Air Force One.
They were charter pilots, probably flew normal airline flights most of the time.
Evidently I’m alone in preferring Obama go down as opposed to the United States! That is indeed a tragedy.
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