Weird. Just last week the plane I was on was making a really weird noise during landing, like the landing gear was stuck or something. I panicked and started wondering what a plane would do under such circumstances. I guess I got my answer. I stayed at work until 6:45p.m. tonight, glued to the t.v. waiting to catch the live footage of this plane landing. I was SOOOOOOOO relieved to see it touch down safely. [EXHALE......]
New Roof - Summer 2019
4 years ago
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I was going to blog about this also, something along the line "When something goes right in an emergency." I didn't get the news until later in the evening, but I cheered to hear everyone was safe...and a little nervous that this happened at airports (Burbank especially) that I travel through often.
Yeah, I was going to add a note about that. I was REALLY impressed at how smooth the response to this was. They thought of everything - the longest, widest runway (it ended up using 95% of the length), flame-retardant foam, letting the fuel run out, etc., etc. Awesome. One good thing about Katrina is that it's made people a lot more "hypervigilant" about the potential consequences of an emergency situation. Sometimes hypervigilance can be a good thing.
i agree with how well it turned out. it could have been a lot worse....i didnt hear anything about it until this morning tho....but im outta the news loop...
the tsa said that this happens a few times a year. i wouldn't worry too much about it. count yourself lucky that you manage to land safely. if you've ever heard air traffic control transmissions, they're cryptic, jumbled, and they push planes very close together to keep schedules.
Heck, all in a days work for me. "There goes the office," came to mind when I first saw the facocked landing gear and, I, too, was impressed with the turnout. Hope this never happens on my watch, but whadya gonna do if it does?
Amazing live footage, too. Makes the journalist in me all-a-quiver.
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