RAAF Hercules in Emergency Landing
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RAAF Hercules in Emergency Landing
Sky News:
RAAF Hercules carrying the Prime Minister John Howard has made an emergency landing in Southern Iraq.
Later news: Cockpit filled with smoke. PM on a second Hercules and on his way.
RAAF Hercules carrying the Prime Minister John Howard has made an emergency landing in Southern Iraq.
Later news: Cockpit filled with smoke. PM on a second Hercules and on his way.
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That'll swing a few morons with their sympathy votes his way...
Goodonya Little Johnny, better you than the Leftists.
btw, the paper says it was a RAAF plane. I thought a plane was a type of hamburger?? fwits.
Goodonya Little Johnny, better you than the Leftists.
btw, the paper says it was a RAAF plane. I thought a plane was a type of hamburger?? fwits.
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Just saw the video on TV of Johnny Bush running off the plane.
If the media can stand around and film him was there that much danger?
Maybe he had not had his morning run that day !
If the media can stand around and film him was there that much danger?
Maybe he had not had his morning run that day !
Well I never! The story on the front page of The Sunday Times (the world's best newspaper) defines a PAN as "possible assistance necessary". You learn something every day...
And yes, planes shave wood.
And yes, planes shave wood.
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Did you hear that in her divorce from Paul McCartney, Heather Mills insisted she gets their plane?
She intends to use a razor on the other leg........
BOOM TISH
(The PM exits stage left to the sounds of puzzled silence).
She intends to use a razor on the other leg........
BOOM TISH
(The PM exits stage left to the sounds of puzzled silence).
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Scotty, plain (hamburger) perhaps, definately not plane. As applied to aviation the paper was absolutely correct. What do they teach kids at school these days? 
PAN
Please indulge my thread drift. I've always understood PAN to have come from the French 'panne' meaning 'breakdown' originating from the language of vehicular transport.
Any other thoughts?
Any other thoughts?
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Yes Compressor stall, I did. I watched that right after reading the front page of the Sunday Herald Sun & there was one of them right next to Johnny Flak Jacket!!!
Now, the ADF would like us all to forget his face, you know, like a dentist!!!
Now, the ADF would like us all to forget his face, you know, like a dentist!!!
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His protection wasn't much chop anyway, photo or not - the image has him looking at the ground while he's escorting Imperial Grand Wizard Howard off the "plane". Maybe checking for landmines???
Shoulda just sent the journos ahead of them...
Yes, a plain is a type of burger, B. Abraham. Well done, you spotted the short-coming in my slagging of the media. You needed to use a little of what we sometimes call "poetic licence"....
Shoulda just sent the journos ahead of them...
Yes, a plain is a type of burger, B. Abraham. Well done, you spotted the short-coming in my slagging of the media. You needed to use a little of what we sometimes call "poetic licence"....
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Scotty, I just thought it best to leave invective directed at the media to the times when they write wrong, and not when they write right, if you get my drift (and thats not port or starboard) 
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Funny you should say that LT-DT. The CNN report is claiming it was his first visit!!!
I'll bet he'll be on the phone to George to get that corrected!
I'll bet he'll be on the phone to George to get that corrected!
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I noticed in the video footage of the PM running down the ramp door to escape the aircraft, that the slow-moving ramp door was fully open when the footage started, with other persons moving around the rear of the aircraft! My point is this looks to me like a media 're-run' of the evacuation for the benefit of the cameras!
Anyway, it was a J-model C130, who knows what happened aboard, certainly not the pilots, and since there is no Flight Engineer on this model, I thinking nobody knows whats happening when something goes amiss, as it did this day!
Cheers, FD
Anyway, it was a J-model C130, who knows what happened aboard, certainly not the pilots, and since there is no Flight Engineer on this model, I thinking nobody knows whats happening when something goes amiss, as it did this day!
Cheers, FD