Archive for the ‘Crash’ Category

Flight 1549 Details

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Scott McCartney has some interesting details on the operational procedures after the A320 ditched in the Hudson. Within 30 minutes, Sully called in to the operations center. The official answering the phone said, “Sorry, captain. I can’t talk to you now. We have an airplane in the Hudson River,’’ according to ...

Speculation

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Two fatal and terrible crashes over the past 24 hours and the speculation is rampant. First, the private, single engine plane crash in Montana.  Charlie Gibson just hinted that the plane was too heavy for its approved operation because there were 14 people on board.  Nevermind, that those people were ...

On Crashes

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Fully-intact airplanes are not supposed to fall out of the sky fully intact.  Even when things go wrong there is an extremely high chance that the plane will stay in the air long enough for pilots to react.  Over the past couple weeks, two incidents deadly incidents have occurred with ...