Posted on 06/02/2014 5:08:42 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
I would factor in stress, checklists and protocols. First officer fulfilled her duty to operate the aircraft in the safest manner possible in difficult circumstances.
I remember reading a detailed account of one of Millet’s soldiers in that charge. He amazed them and they followed his lead. The witness stated Cpt. Millet bayoneted one Chinese and when he tried retrieving the rifle, the impaled body came back up off the ground. He had to replace the body on the ground and put his foot on the ribcage to dislodge the bayonet with the rifle.
Gotta ask for those of us not on the inside with pilot/aircraft slang...what's a sewer tube!?
A Metroliner. Per Wiki.-
The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner or the Fairchild Aerospace Metro is a 19-seat, pressurised, twin-turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild at a plant in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
From http://www.b737.org.uk/aircraftnicknames.htm Metroliner: San-Antonio sewerpipe, Texas Sewer Pipe, Death pencil, The Screamin Weenie, Texas Lawn Dart, Swetro (It got very hot in the summer), Baltimore Whore (no visible means of support, skinny lil ‘ol wings), Terror Tube, “That noisy f@#$ing (ed.) thing”, Widow maker, Kerosene Crowbar, Fear tube, Necroliner, Buzzbomb.
I guess us Northerners preferred sewer tube to sewerpipe.
That aircraft has some horrible nicknames.
You probably wouldn’t want to see it’s accident/incidence history. I took a peek and closed the page. LOL. I learned to fly in a “Trauma hawk” (Tomahawk). Also called the Spin Master. My ex Viet Nam fighter pilot instructor and I loved to practice spins in it. The landing totally in the blind was slightly cooler. Wouldn’t want to be talked down in a jet though.
Thanks for the detailed reply! As a pre-TSA lover of commercial flying, I continue to be amazed what God-given human ingenuity can “successfully” produce!
“Lands it and saves 160 lives.”
Actually, the airline pilot landed the plane.
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