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eric strt6

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meanwhile over at Denver's Centennial Airport
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The NTSB says an onboard ‘black box’ recorded a Cirrus SR22 flying nearly 50 knots faster than recommended on the base leg at Denver Centennial airport. The Cirrus overshot the turn to final and collided with a Metroliner cargo plane on a parallel runway. All occupants of both damaged aircraft survived.
 
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stevew

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eric strt6

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United Boeing 737-9 MAX rejected takeoff



A United Boeing 737-9 MAX, registration N37560 performing flight UA-329 from Denver,CO to Boston,MA (USA), was accelerating for takeoff from Denver’s runway 16R when the crew rejected takeoff at high speed, in response to the radio transmission tower reported he could see fire from the left hand engine (LEAP). The crew affirmed and stopped the aircraft, subsequently reporting it appeared they had flat tyres on the right hand side and were disabled. The runway was closed, emergency services responded, tower cleared the crew to evacuate if needed stating “the runway is yours!” While emergency services were responding but had not yet reached the runway tower informed emergency services that they no longer observed any fire, it appears extinguished.
The FAA reported: “AIRCRAFT ON DEPARTURE ROLL, ABORTED TAKEOFF DUE TO SMOKE AND FIRE UNDER RIGHT WING AND ARFF EXTINGUISHED FIRE, DENVER, CO.” providing the aircraft tail number of the replacement aircraft registration N37541.
Pictorial evidence shows fire damage to the right hand side of the aircraft, all four main tyres blown, the right hand main wheel rims abraded.
 

stevew

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@Pesqueeb .....crown skin

 

Pesqueeb

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@Pesqueeb .....crown skin

:nerd:
 

Toshi

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Oct 23, 2001
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I have to complain

the flight attendant came by about 2h before arrival, and asked me which of the breakfast options I wanted (the french toast)

I never got said breakfast

:-/
 

mandown

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I have to complain

the flight attendant came by about 2h before arrival, and asked me which of the breakfast options I wanted (the french toast)

I never got said breakfast

:-/
you should’ve asked for freedom toast, particularly if you were flying American Airlines.
 

jonKranked

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@Pesqueeb .....crown skin

bonus points for the Power Trip shirt
 

chuffer

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Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
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Per the article, 83 counts of attempted murder, but only 70 passengers on board. Are there 13 crew members on a flight of that size? Or is my math and / or reading comprehension that bad?
Hadn't caught that, but you're correct. I'm guessing article is written incorrectly. E175 holds 76 passengers if it's full, plus 4 crew. Couple of lap infants, maybe? It's also possible Horizon has different seating arrangements than I'm used too, but either way, funny numbers are funny.
 

Jm_

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Jan 14, 2002
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Per the article, 83 counts of attempted murder, but only 70 passengers on board. Are there 13 crew members on a flight of that size? Or is my math and / or reading comprehension that bad?
Do meat missiles, I mean babies held under the age of 2, count?
 

Jm_

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Hadn't caught that, but you're correct. I'm guessing article is written incorrectly. E175 holds 76 passengers if it's full, plus 4 crew. Couple of lap infants, maybe? It's also possible Horizon has different seating arrangements than I'm used too, but either way, funny numbers are funny.
Correct industry term is "meat missiles".
 

mykel

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chuffer

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Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
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Do meat missiles, I mean babies held under the age of 2, count?
Kill count is a kill count.

Per the article, 83 counts of attempted murder, but only 70 passengers on board. Are there 13 crew members on a flight of that size? Or is my math and / or reading comprehension that bad?
Hadn't caught that, but you're correct. I'm guessing article is written incorrectly. E175 holds 76 passengers if it's full, plus 4 crew. Couple of lap infants, maybe? It's also possible Horizon has different seating arrangements than I'm used too, but either way, funny numbers are funny.


There were 80 passengers and four crew members on the flight, according to Alaska.
84 souls on board, minus captain crazy pants = 83 counts of attempted murder.
 

Westy

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I almost feel a little bad for the guy. Depression is a hell of a thing but it's hardly an excuse for you know, all the attempted murder.

I have been on enough flights where almost all of the other passengers have been loudly coughing, kicking seatbacks, Attempting to stuff multiple oversized bags into the overheads, farting, eating fish, trimming toenails etc. At this point I don't think we can really discount the fact that they all could have deserved it.

I mean the whole plane could have been filled with Nickleback fans returning from a concert.
 

stevew

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I have been on enough flights where almost all of the other passengers have been loudly coughing, kicking seatbacks, Attempting to stuff multiple oversized bags into the overheads, farting, eating fish, trimming toenails etc. At this point I don't think we can really discount the fact that they all could have deserved it.

I mean the whole plane could have been filled with Nickleback fans returning from a concert.
do not fly spirit air?