Doh!
To: Straight Vermonter
Let me guess, the copilot was yelling Alah Akbar while he was “adjusting his seat.” /sarc
2 posted on
12/02/2010 4:39:45 AM PST by
anymouse
(God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
To: Straight Vermonter
There’s already a thread on this one.
The copilot was fighting the pilot for control. Pilot trying to pull up, copilot trying to dive the aircraft.
Something’s fishy in Mecca.
3 posted on
12/02/2010 4:40:28 AM PST by
PLMerite
(Fix the FR clock. It's time.)
To: Straight Vermonter
Happens Everytime. . . . . . . .
4 posted on
12/02/2010 4:41:39 AM PST by
DeaconRed
(I want some of that Money For Nothing & My Chicks for Free. . . . . . . .)
To: Straight Vermonter
Rumack: You’d better tell the Captain we’ve got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
Elaine Dickinson: A hospital? What is it?
Rumack: It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now.
10 posted on
12/02/2010 4:53:53 AM PST by
InvisibleChurch
(Stimulus ~ Response / "...and that's why the color yellow makes me sad, I think.")
To: Straight Vermonter
Co-pilot probably had to go. Indians don’t like indoor toilets or plumbing.
To: Straight Vermonter
he was just texting his BFF, Allah, and well you know the rest
17 posted on
12/02/2010 4:58:43 AM PST by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein.)
To: Straight Vermonter
< img=dumbass picture from That 70s Show >
19 posted on
12/02/2010 5:07:59 AM PST by
earlJam
To: Straight Vermonter
At least he wasn’t trained enough to flip it over on its back and then dive it straight down.
20 posted on
12/02/2010 5:12:59 AM PST by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month)
To: Straight Vermonter
...concluded that the 25-year-old co-pilot had not been trained in the specific scenario the jet encountered and “probably had no clue to tackle this kind of emergency.” The other posters here are right, there is something fishy. This would seem to be a fundamental, like flight-school 101, type thing. I'm not even a pilot but let me take a wild guess at a simple procedure to recover: retard the throttles so as not to over-speed the engines, and gradually pull back on the column so as not to over-stress the airframe by pulling too many Gs...
I mean, come on, the guy is a co-pilot, he is supposed to know what the basic flight controls are, right? This is a cover-up for something.
21 posted on
12/02/2010 5:22:39 AM PST by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: Straight Vermonter
24 posted on
12/02/2010 5:38:41 AM PST by
MichaelP
(It's the end of the world as they know it, and I'm so glad!)
To: Straight Vermonter
“The aviation agency report concluded that the 25-year-old co-pilot had not been trained in the specific scenario the jet encountered and “probably had no clue to tackle this kind of emergency.””
Like I really believe that. Previous report had him pushing hard on the yoke as the captain pulled back on his.
25 posted on
12/02/2010 5:39:33 AM PST by
SeeSac
To: Straight Vermonter
This story has been repeated now a bunch of times. It is BS. No one who gets to be a co-pilot on a commercial airliner doesn't know how to bring an airplane out of a dive, nor do unintentional 7000 foot dives occur because someone bumps into something.
ML/NJ
27 posted on
12/02/2010 5:48:26 AM PST by
ml/nj
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