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Jumbo Jet Packed With British Tourists Seconds From Disaster After It Fails To Rise On Take-Off
Daily Mail (UK) ^
| May 31st 2009
Posted on 05/31/2009 7:58:41 PM PDT by Steelfish
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posted on
05/31/2009 7:58:41 PM PDT
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
Flight software hacked???
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:02:52 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 132 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: null and void
Switch in wrong position.
/johnny
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:04:10 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: Steelfish
So the media thinks there are two sets of flaps. One to take off with and the other to land with.
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:04:21 PM PDT
by
U S Army EOD
(Say Cheese.)
To: U S Army EOD
Yeah, I didn’t get that part.
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:05:02 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: Steelfish
Flying...hours and hours of extreme boredom interupted by brief moments of sheer terror.
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:05:07 PM PDT
by
crghill
(You can't put a condom on your soul. I'm an anti-antinomian.)
To: Steelfish
Yeah, “failing to rise” would be a problem alright...
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:05:37 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: rdl6989
I wonder if you also raise the take off gear and lower the landing gear.
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:08:00 PM PDT
by
U S Army EOD
(Say Cheese.)
To: Steelfish
Lucky there are no hills around and downtown is in the wrong direction.
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:08:11 PM PDT
by
TWfromTEXAS
(Life is the one choice that pro choicers wonÂ’t support.)
To: Steelfish
Last week it emerged that BA lost more than £400million in the year up to March - its worst result since the airline was privatized more than two decades ago. What is the significance of BA being privatized ? Why does it not mention the losses BA incurred before it was privatized ?
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:08:28 PM PDT
by
libh8er
To: rdl6989
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:09:36 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
To: crghill
I just flew a Quicksilver GT500 from Washington, GA to San Antonio, TX and back, the entire trip was terrifying. Never got bored.
To: Steelfish
Miraculous escape: The British Airways Boeing 747, similar to this one, is thought to have gone into landing mode so that the flaps that make it rise did not workSilly me, I thought they set the flaps BEFORE takeoff. Anyway 'landing flaps' are always at a greater setting than 'takeoff flap' settings. The article doesn't make any sense.
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:10:53 PM PDT
by
zipper
To: TWfromTEXAS
It is a long flight out of Joberg, flights take off as heavy as possible, and the runway is at 5000ft, so there is little margin for error.
To: libh8er
Can’t do that because as a government-run institution losses can be more easily hidden.
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:11:23 PM PDT
by
Andyman
(The truth shall make you FReep.)
To: Steelfish
British Airways 747
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:11:37 PM PDT
by
blam
To: U S Army EOD
U should have stopped in to see me. I’m in New Braunfels Texas just north of San Antonio. That’s a very small plane-like vehicle to cover such distance.
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:12:59 PM PDT
by
crghill
(You can't put a condom on your soul. I'm an anti-antinomian.)
To: U S Army EOD
Same flaps...
Different FMS computer configurations for specific flight regimes....
Selected/programmed inappropriately -- ruh-roh
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:13:33 PM PDT
by
Wings-n-Wind
(The main things are the plain things!)
To: AndyJackson
Yes I know, I've flown to London, Nairobi, Harare and Cape Town from there, though the Cape Town flights were on smaller jets.
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posted on
05/31/2009 8:14:43 PM PDT
by
TWfromTEXAS
(Life is the one choice that pro choicers wonÂ’t support.)
To: Steelfish
How much is the pilot going to be fined for dumping fuel and polluting the environment?
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