[s-cars] Fw: Watch Narrow escape
Joe Pizzimenti
joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 04:55:24 PST 2008
Life is all about options. There's nothing I've found that says the
crosswinds started before his descent.
Easy to criticize from behind a keyboard. Thankfully, no one got hurt.
Joe
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:37 AM, <calvinlc at earthlink.net> wrote:
> OK, I have seen this video like 10 times and I must say that the pilot, in
> my opinion, is a dumbass. I'll wait for Hap to weigh in on this one, but,
> here's the simple question: If you are 75 feet off the deck and 45 degrees
> off-line with the runway, do you...
> A) keep descending and hope the wind suddenly stops blowing and it
> straightens out
> B) try and go around again in similar conditions
> C) find an airport nearby with a runway that is not situated 90 degrees to
> the stinkin' wind direction!!!
>
> In my world of values where my life is pretty high up on the list I think
> C
> is better than B is better than A.
>
> A lot of people have looked at this and said what an amazing job the pilot
> did. Yes, he did, but that's like saying I was traveling 100 mph down a
> residential street and narrowly missed a kid who darted out in the
> street...boy am I a good driver. I do not pilot large commercial jets but
> this just seems like common sense to me.
>
> --Calvin
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Tom Black
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:40 AM
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: [s-cars] Fw: Watch Narrow escape
>
>
> Sorry NAC.......Something to think about on a Monday.
>
> Narrow escape
>
> Video:
> 3 Mar 08: Pilots of a plane carrying hundreds of passengers narrowly
> avoided
> catastrophe when their Airbus A320 tried to land in a storm.
>
> http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1137942530/bclid1155254697/bct
> id1439799637<http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1137942530/bclid1155254697/bctid1439799637>
>
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