Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Continental crash

The National Transportation Safety Board has reported that “the same kind of aircraft operated by the same airline traveled the same route last week and landed safely.” The aircraft landed 27 minutes behind the first plane which had a fatal crash into a home just outside of Buffalo, NY. All 49 passengers died and one man livin in the house died too. Just last week I was at the point where I felt the 15 minutes of fame was up for the pilot of the Hudson crash. I was surprised that they were still talkin bout him, bringing him to Larry King, and all the other party and bullshit. But now I can see why. I mean, if there was a less experienced pilot there might be a chance he woulda nosedived into the Hudson and killed everyone. Now, I’m not tryin to knock the pilot of the Continental flight, but the people knew they were gonna die. Reports are comin in sayin the plane was rollin and dropped out the air violently. I just wonder what were the conditions that pilot faced that the later pilot didn’t. I don’t wanna speculate but it is what I do. But I feel like the pilot in the crash wasn’t as nice as the pilot that landed safely later.
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2 comments:

  1. Word is the pilot had fewer than 100 hours in the Dash-8, the Dash-8 doesn't have autothrottle, so when the autopilot tried to keep the plane on the glide slope with up elevator the plane slowed rapidly, stalled and you know the story from there.

    This is my speculation however, although i suspect the NTSB report will reinforce these ideas.

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  2. Damn, that fucking sucks. And "fucking sucks" doesn't even beginning to describe it.

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