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Old 30th Dec 2014, 01:38
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PAXboy
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Do amuse yourselves by checking the 'news' as reported. Here are a couple:

The Daily Mirror
It has emerged that the pilot’s daughter was on board the plane as her hero dad struggled to land the aircraft safely.
There does not appear to have been any 'struggle' since he achieved all his objectives, as well as those of his employer.

One Pax reports:
“At one point we dropped from 7,000ft to 5,000ft in about a second,” she said.
Good to know the Pax know how these things work. here's their front page:

The Daily Mail
Terrified passengers on the flight were ordered to adopt the 'brace' position by the pilot over the speaker.
Good to know he was doing his job.

this links to their front page, via the BBC round up of papers:
BBC News - Newspaper headlines: Ebola fears, plane emergency and Greece

(Thread drift: They also mention 'Ebola panic' So, within 12 hours of a single case being isolated and treated properly - they know that there is a 'panic'.

The Independent
Nick Hughes, a passenger on the aircraft, told BBC Radio 5 Live: “Initially they didn’t reveal everything to the passengers. After we’d circled a few times you got the sense things weren’t quite right. They gave every opportunity for the landing gear to open, but unfortunately it never did.“The actual landing was one of the softest landings I’d ever had. The crew were exemplary.”

Last edited by PAXboy; 30th Dec 2014 at 02:17. Reason: Add link to Mirror front page
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