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Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:46 pm
by Cacophonix
Capetonian wrote:KLM plane suffered the strike after departing from Amsterdam's Schipol Airport
Thankfully, the craft withstood the hit and continued as normal to its destination
The unnerving footage by Valk Aviation amassed 140,000 views in just one day
If you suffer a fear of flying, look away now.
Because this is the dramatic moment a commercial carrier suffers a direct lightning hit - just moments after launching into the skies.
Footage shows the commercial carrier being struck mid-air while carrying countless passengers from Amsterdam's Schipol Airport
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Countless passengers, possibly an infinite number! The laws of physics and economics have been suspended, gravity is no more and Michael O' Leary has been outed as a leprechaun!
Caco
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:21 pm
by 54Phan
This is brilliant!
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:15 pm
by Capetonian
But on Monday they had what James described as "the flight from hell" with two aborted landings and a four hour wait on a stationary plane, before landing in Fuerteventura instead of Lanzarote.
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:42 pm
by OFSO
a four hour wait on a stationary plane, before landing
Wow, that must have been a strong headwind on final !
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:48 pm
by OFSO
Look at the uneven pattern of rivets on the starboard nose panel, around 56 seconds into the Flesh Gordon clip. Quite amazing.
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:34 am
by Alisoncc
How they should report it.
Train crashes into barrier at station.
Structural engineers, who arrived at the incident within seconds, have examined the barrier and are pleased to report it has suffered minimal damage.
The train driver, who survived the crash with minor injuries, has been cut down from the tree. His body will be cremated in the flames of the spilt diesel fuel.
Of the sixteen passengers injured, five were critically so. They were put down at the scene.
Witnesses state the train became airborne briefly, accordingly the Aviation Transport Safety Board will be doing a report for the Coroner. METARS for the period the train was airborne will be made available in due course.
It is anticipated the station will be unusable for the next six months. A special dispensation has been provided to allow passengers to walk the five miles to the next station along the track. No responsibility is accepted for any injuries that may occur from said passengers inadvertently touching the live third rail.
Please add more in a similar vein.
Alison
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:48 am
by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Doomed Airliner Crashes in Flames
After a suspiciously long period of inactivity, the Government and airline industry have finally agreed to end the undeclared work-to-rule by airline pilots, which has resulted in zero disasters, or even minor crashes, for over six months. The damage to the media by this complete lack of an excuse for salacious headlines has been incalculable. The CEO of a charter airline has agreed to crash one of his aircraft in Britain, in return for a knighthood and the destruction of certain photographs which his wife and her lawyer would have been very interested in seeing. We enjoyed seeing them anyway, especially the one with the 3 strippers, the dog and the vat of custard. Almost like the old days.
A team of top journalists has been poring for weeks over passenger lists, selecting the most suitable victims, and flight reassignments blamed on "computer error" have just been issued. The dead will include: several mothers-of-three, a former Miss Sidcup, a youth football team, at least 12 'bloody foreigners' on whom assorted conspiracy theories can be blamed, and 2 government officials about whom information will be "sketchy at best". The crash site will be Acacia Crescent, Guildford, which has an excellent selection of fine, period properties that are, or have recently been, on the market.
*We apologise to readers for the complete lack of spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, factual inaccuracies, and reprinted paragraphs. This article was copy-edited for an historical lecture and the original lost.
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:41 pm
by Mrs Ex-Ascot
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 5:51 am
by Capetonian
Doctor marched off EasyJet plane at gunpoint after complaining he had lost his seat with extra leg room despite paying the extra £27
The reality is that he was abusive and aggressive and the captain felt he was a threat to the safety of the aircraft and those on board so he called the police to have him removed. The police just happened to be armed. Still, why not turn a non-story into a drama, DM?
No 'terrified passengers cowering as gunshots ricocheted round the cabin'?
He wasn't even 'wrestled to the ground by a heroic have-a-go hero'.
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 3:02 pm
by Woody
Looks like the Manchester Evening News has been reading our thread
Love the Pilot handled it like a pro quote
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... r-15071807
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 4:30 pm
by Capetonian
That article probab.ly deserves an award for plumbing new depths of aviation writing
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 5:49 pm
by OFSO
Looking back at post #21, perhaps it was an all-male flight and a journalists typo !
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:58 am
by Slasher
Us captain types are trained to look shaken and scared whenever we have to do a zero flap landing on a long runway requiring only two thirds its length. It's part of being a pro!
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 2:04 pm
by Ex-Ascot
Absolute brilliant reporting:
He came out and he looked quite shaken up - it was an absolutely petrifying experience. Even the captain’s voice was shaking, he sounded scared but he just tried to reassure us saying ‘it’s going to be a bumpy landing, we’re going to be greeted by fire engines - but your safety is paramount I think Cape wrote this. It has his style.
Actually do not know what you think Capt but my view if this is true is a bit of an overload of info to the pax here. Diversion due to a couple of drunken tourist woofters bonking on the runway at destination and a practice fire drill at MAN would suffice. The SLF would never notice no flaps and slightly higher landing speed. Not a problem.
Had to do a flapless ferry (no pax of course) from IAD to BZN in a VC10. We obviously had permission. Apparently the phones at the airport were jammed for hours with noise complaints
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 3:44 pm
by Alisoncc
Slasher wrote: ↑Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:58 am
we have to do a zero flap landing on a long runway requiring only two thirds its length. It's part of being a pro!
Excuse me I'm new here. What's a runway?
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Alison
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 6:43 pm
by Slasher
If the emotional descriptions of the capt are true then the whole thing smacks of a bloody inexperienced and undertrained crew. Recall the Scare Asia 330 ex PER which lost one after dep and the PIC frightened the pax sh!tless with inappropriate PAs. And yes Ex-A sah I agree there are times one can (and should) ***** the pax and there are times one shouldn't (e.g. when one fully expects an evacuation).
Been a while but IIRC on the 737-400 for an all flaps up ldg (i.e. slats and flaps) you're looking at VREF+60 initially decreasing to +50 approaching the fence. At MLW that's roughly 185kt. Since our boy circled he'd burnt off fuel to reduce LW. So say 180kt round number.
LDR I think was roughly 1800M dry (1.67) with both reversers and max manual brakes, zero wind. So actual 50ft to full stop around say 1100-1200m if no screwups.
Again IIRC - the golden snippet for the 737 was LDR for flaps 40 equaled ALD clean. Then bung on your 1.67 (or 1.91 wet) for RLD.
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 12:05 am
by ExSp33db1rd
Extract from the report in the New Zealand Herald this morning - which included all the "Hero Pilot" comments as well, of course.
.......... and she told her daughter she loved her, just in case the worst happened.
As the worst didn't happen, presumably this passenger no longer loves her daughter ?
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 12:45 am
by Slasher
Does anyone know what runway the guy landed on (specifically the LDA)?
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:51 pm
by OFSO
Passengers were"dropping like flies" on a Jet2 flight from Reus to Leeds, according to a passenger's post on Farcebook. The airline later confirmed two unrelated cases of sickness on board, and that, although one ambulance met the arriving aircraft, nobody required hospitalisation.
Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2018 9:04 pm
by Capetonian
Surely the captain and first officer collapsed at the steering wheel as the jet plunged towards the sea in a death-defying drive, and a heroic cabin attendant who had just passed her driving test was able to fly the massive jet to a smooth crash landing on the runway?