Co-pilot gets sick, stewardess helps land airplane
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From: Jim Logajan on 2 Jul 2010 18:56 The Starmaker <starmaker(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote: > If I run out of gasoline, or my car..stalls, I'm not going to crash > into the ground! Ha - I've flown aircraft that had no gasoline or other fuel and never crashed into the ground! (I was piloting a glider....)
From: The Starmaker on 2 Jul 2010 19:10 Jim Logajan wrote: > > The Starmaker <starmaker(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > If I run out of gasoline, or my car..stalls, I'm not going to crash > > into the ground! > > Ha - I've flown aircraft that had no gasoline or other fuel and never > crashed into the ground! > > (I was piloting a glider....) That doesn't mean that gliders don't crash... http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=glider+crashes&ech=13&psi=g3EuTJz3AYnSpATPyKGUBA12781121269930&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=jHEuTM7AN4rGnAfLzMWKBA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=6&ved=0CDcQsAQwBQ
From: Jim Logajan on 2 Jul 2010 19:08 The Starmaker <starmaker(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Jim Logajan wrote: >> >> The Starmaker <starmaker(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote: >> > airplanes...all they do is CRASH! >> >> Usenet cross-posters ... all they do is TROLL! >> >> > Who knows how many airplanes crash a year..thousands. >> >> The NTSB knows: >> http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Stats.htm >> >> A total of 534 aviation fatalities in 2009 in the U.S. >> >> By comparison, allegedly 450 deaths per year occurred in the U.S. due >> to people falling out of bed: > > > Are you comparing how many people are *in* bed with how many planes > there are in the air? > > There are not 300 million airplanes in the sky... But U.S. airlines carried 704 million passengers in 2009: http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2010/bts029_10/html/bts029_10.html (And that was a down year.) > Planes crash because....they run out of whatever keeps them up in the > air... People crash out of bed because....they run out of safety blankets. > You put a washing machine in the air...you better have enough quaters > to keep it flying. That's probably why bricks plummet to the ground: no place to insert quarters.
From: The Starmaker on 2 Jul 2010 19:22 The Starmaker wrote: > > Jim Logajan wrote: > > > > The Starmaker <starmaker(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > > If I run out of gasoline, or my car..stalls, I'm not going to crash > > > into the ground! > > > > Ha - I've flown aircraft that had no gasoline or other fuel and never > > crashed into the ground! > > > > (I was piloting a glider....) > > That doesn't mean that gliders don't crash... > > http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=glider+crashes&ech=13&psi=g3EuTJz3AYnSpATPyKGUBA12781121269930&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=jHEuTM7AN4rGnAfLzMWKBA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=6&ved=0CDcQsAQwBQ two die in glider... http://media.apnonline.com.au/img/news/2008/09/02/glider_crash_465x288_020908_t312.jpg probably ran out of ...air? It's not gliding, ...it's trying to crash.
From: george on 2 Jul 2010 20:14
On Jul 3, 11:22 am, The Starmaker <starma...(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote: > The Starmaker wrote: > > > Jim Logajan wrote: > > > > The Starmaker <starma...(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > > > If I run out of gasoline, or my car..stalls, I'm not going to crash > > > > into the ground! > > > > Ha - I've flown aircraft that had no gasoline or other fuel and never > > > crashed into the ground! > > > > (I was piloting a glider....) > > > That doesn't mean that gliders don't crash... > > >http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=glider+crashes&ech=13ø=g3EuTJ... > > two die in glider...http://media.apnonline.com.au/img/news/2008/09/02/glider_crash_465x28... > > probably ran out of ...air? > > It's not gliding, ...it's trying to crash. In the real world we dont use cotton wool. There are dangers in anything worth doing. And flying is certainly something well worth doing !. |