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I don't want to be the best pilot in the world - Just the oldest
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What followed was an hour-long ordeal that included an aborted landing where passengers could hear the wings making a "terrible grinding noise" as they failed to move into the right position.
Just goes to show what to expect when you let the undeducated public give comment on matters that they know nothing about.
Had a similar incident at a remote airport several months back involving a 717 but thankfully no bottom feeding journos around to stir up even a whif of a story.
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Noisy flaps and gear doors are the norm in a 146 - how come that isn't reported more often...?
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another qantas emergency landing!
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=328161
Qantas jet makes emergency landing
Friday Nov 23 16:00 AEDT
By ninemsn staff
A Qantas 767 has made an emergency landing at Melbourne's Tullamarine airport after reporting smoke in the cockpit.
A Victoria Police spokesperson said the plane had landed safely and none of the 264 passengers were injured.
Firefighters were called to the scene but were stood down after the plane landed.
More to come
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everything seems ok tho... at one stage i loaded the ninemsn webpage and saw this:
my gut dropped when i saw that picture, seems it was just a ninemsn website stuff up at a bad time with the "breaking news" above the picture. which just happens to be a picture of a totally different story about a train crash.... lol
Qantas jet makes emergency landing
Friday Nov 23 16:00 AEDT
By ninemsn staff
A Qantas 767 has made an emergency landing at Melbourne's Tullamarine airport after reporting smoke in the cockpit.
A Victoria Police spokesperson said the plane had landed safely and none of the 264 passengers were injured.
Firefighters were called to the scene but were stood down after the plane landed.
More to come
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everything seems ok tho... at one stage i loaded the ninemsn webpage and saw this:
my gut dropped when i saw that picture, seems it was just a ninemsn website stuff up at a bad time with the "breaking news" above the picture. which just happens to be a picture of a totally different story about a train crash.... lol
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Ms Merrell from E & Y said
The time for hysteria is AFTER the crash, not before.
"If you can keep your head when those all around your are losing theirs" (Rudyard Kipling, 1903) "You probably don't understand the situation as well as they do" (Ms. Merrell, 2007).
Another "grim struggle with the controls averts certain death" story, well done Fairfax.
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"I was hysterical and that was quite obvious. While most people around me were looking at each other and looking out the window and highly attuned to what was going on.
"If you can keep your head when those all around your are losing theirs" (Rudyard Kipling, 1903) "You probably don't understand the situation as well as they do" (Ms. Merrell, 2007).
Another "grim struggle with the controls averts certain death" story, well done Fairfax.
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Two ways of looking at this:
1. Fairfax has joined the UK Daily Mail as the numpties of reporting aviation matters;
2. Fairfax isn't actually that bad and the real story here is how irrational a person who purports to be a senior professional (and who is about to spawn and inflict her DNA upon an unsuspecting world), can actually be.
... "happy place".
Remind me never to engage that crowd for their 'professional services'.
While we're at it, these accounting firms have dubbed themselves 'professional services' firms. Isn't 'professional service' what one gets at certain establishments on Patpong Road?
1. Fairfax has joined the UK Daily Mail as the numpties of reporting aviation matters;
2. Fairfax isn't actually that bad and the real story here is how irrational a person who purports to be a senior professional (and who is about to spawn and inflict her DNA upon an unsuspecting world), can actually be.
... "happy place".
Remind me never to engage that crowd for their 'professional services'.
While we're at it, these accounting firms have dubbed themselves 'professional services' firms. Isn't 'professional service' what one gets at certain establishments on Patpong Road?
Last edited by Taildragger67; 23rd Nov 2007 at 15:31.
I've seen worse reporting that that.
What do you expect a passenger to say and know? She knew the "things on the back of the wing are supposed to move before landing" so what if she didn't know to call them Flaps.
I think you are being a bit hard on them?
She even complimented the Captain.
If that's the worst they can do............then we had all better shutup.
What do you expect a passenger to say and know? She knew the "things on the back of the wing are supposed to move before landing" so what if she didn't know to call them Flaps.
I think you are being a bit hard on them?
She even complimented the Captain.
If that's the worst they can do............then we had all better shutup.
767s often make a "grinding" or "crunching" sound (it sounds like an "uuurrrttt" to me . . . . ) when selecting Flaps 1.
It's audible from both the flightdeck and on the ground below.
It's audible from both the flightdeck and on the ground below.