Just because you hear about it more doesn't make it more or less "important".
737 goes down off Hawaii
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GypsyPilot
Mohawk Town
Yep, welcome to the club. The guy you put on ignore is well worth ignoring.
As far as Juan Browne, I agree he does a nice job and he’s one of the only aviation YouTube creators I’m subscribed to. He’s an AA pilot, and flies a 777 or 787 I believe.
Cory Trevor
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I don’t think I could be less into aviation YouTubers. I have 0 interest in watching that video or the Swaynes or whoever.
GolfChuck
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They took the job building the ultimate weapon in the universe. "You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to [his heart]...not his wallet." --Clerks
Autothrust Blue
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Right, Atlas 3591 is a deadly important business and honestly, I think it could happen at a passenger airline too.
Giant just happened to do it first.
Murdoughnut
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I meant for media coverage
Space Monkey
Arbitrariness replaces reason with authority.
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
Blech. I stopped reading /. ages ago.
I thought that pilots were clueless as to how the world worked, then I bumped into the techie crowd.
Space Monkey
Arbitrariness replaces reason with authority.
Logically, you're spot on.
Psychologically, you are dead wrong. (with an ever increasing emphasis on the dead part)
Hopefully a speedy recovery for the flight crew.
Be interesting to see the takeoff weight they were at. With -15 or -17 engines, they have a fair performance ability single engine, better at sea level and when cooler without having to go significantly beyond T/O or go around EPR . If they were -7, -9 or -11, it could get a lot more sporty, with the proverbial remaining one that takes you to the impact site, especially if the remaining one significantly begins to overheat. Be interesting to see the results of that.
Be interesting to see the takeoff weight they were at. With -15 or -17 engines, they have a fair performance ability single engine, better at sea level and when cooler without having to go significantly beyond T/O or go around EPR . If they were -7, -9 or -11, it could get a lot more sporty, with the proverbial remaining one that takes you to the impact site, especially if the remaining one significantly begins to overheat. Be interesting to see the results of that.
MFT1Air
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Not exactly. Contractors are paid to do the job they do for their clients. In combat situations such as Afghanistan/Iraq, many a contractor life was lost and not reported significantly in the news. Civilian loss of life? You tell me.
I'd love to hear the CVR if it's recovered.
Autothrust Blue
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Truer words never penned.
NovemberEcho
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ny guess is the airlines themselves wanted Atlas out of the news as quickly as possible. They don’t want the flying public knowing a 747 crashed because the pilot was that bad.
Maximilian_Jenius
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Cherokee_Cruiser
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NovemberEcho
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they all look alike to me
Boris Badenov
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Someone stuff this guy in to a locker and take his lunch money.
Screaming_Emu
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To be fair. It was IMC. They probably couldn’t see the wands
Sculprit
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as someone else mentioned, 777 for ‘Merican out of LAX.
T/O w/FSII
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I’m not trying to jump on the crew here, but comms we’re pretty dang bad all around. The lack of a mayday call really set things off on the wrong foot.
I listened to a interview of the Coast Guard helicopter crew today and it sounds like the airplane may have broke up? They said “they couldn’t see anything from the wings forward” and one guy was floating on cargo.
The GC also said when they arrived on scene, they first went to get one guy in the water floating on cargo, when they noticed the 2nd guy on the tail. A few second later the tail sunk and the 2nd guy was in the water drowning (their words, I assume they mean that) they flew over and quickly got the 2nd guy who was mostly unresponsive but conscious. Then flew back to the first guy, where the rescues swimmer pushed the pilot on the cargo over to the fire department’s boat. They then flew the guy in serious condition directly to the hospital. The other guy went to shore on the fire department boat.
Wild story. I imagine seconds later and this would have been a lot worse.
Hope he recovers. I still see him listed it as critical in the media.
Sounds like this is the first airline ditching at night at sea with survivors in history.
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