Landing Incident @ SFO

[Zidac]

See something happening here. Think that's a United jet in the background?

Yeah, that was United 885 (KSFO-RJBB) that was holding short of 28L when it happened.

 

[Raskolnikov]

Well shoot. Be safe out there folks.

 

[queeno]

i just learnd something new from the news, did you guys know that you need airflow over the wings for the airplane to fly.............

 

[dasleben]

Seriously - I've never seen anything like it. I couldn't see my hand in front of my face, but it was blowing a gale...really weird.

Northeast sees that kind of stuff every once in a while.

Now back to your regularly scheduled thread...

 

[Mike Wise]

i just learnd something new from the news, did you guys know that you need airflow over the wings for the airplane to fly.............

Only if you've run out of magic.

 

[queeno]

oh no now they are saying that there was a Dyke at the end of the rwy and he hit the Dyke............. god i hope shes OK!!!!!

 

[thevideographer]

NBC just said twice that this is the first major airline crash in the US since 2001. Aren't they forgetting a few?

 

[Zidac]

oh no now they are saying that there was a Dyke at the end of the rwy and he hit the Dyke............. god i hope shes OK!!!!!

Well it is San Francisco...

 

[JayAre]

oh no now they are saying that there was a Dyke at the end of the rwy and he hit the Dyke............. god i hope shes OK!!!!!

Ugly one or hot one?

 

[Cóndor]

I'll take not wind shear at 100-1.

Listening to the tower recordings the wind seemed to be 180 at 5-6 kts around that time . . . that'd explain it going right of centerline but not the premature contact . . . smart bet

 

[Jimmy_Norton]

Considering how Asians drive, I wouldn't count anything out.

 

[Zidac]

NBC just said twice that this is the first major airline crash in the US since 2001. Aren't they forgetting a few?

I noticed that screw-up as well. A guy on CNN said the same thing.

I think AAL587 was the last major airline crash in the US with a fatality... IN the plane? (Therefore not counting Southwest 1248.) That's pretty specific...

 

[JordanD]

I like how the guy they're interviewing on CNN now basically keeps saying "Everyone STFU, nobody knows what happened yet."

 

[TheFlyingTurkey]

Loud "boom" heard before crash?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/plane-crash-san-francisco-airport_738714.html

 

[Muff3n]

It is definitely a bummer to hear about this. It will be interesting to learn more about what caused this accident. I am glad that more people were not killed. The sources that I am currently reading are saying 2 dead, anybody else heard any different?

 

[Mike Wise]

CFIT?

 

[scooter2525]

Please don't be one of my past FOs...

 

[Cóndor]

i just learnd something new from the news, did you guys know that you need airflow over the wings for the airplane to fly.............

These news people just really crack me up . . . don't they know that the only thing that causes an airplane to lift off the ground and fly is money? Geeezzz where is some factual journalism when you need it

 

[Maurus]

Loud "boom" heard before crash?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/plane-crash-san-francisco-airport_738714.html

It is called the gear ripping off.

 

[pullup]

Please stop talking about the accident!!!! Don't you know the pilots families read Jetcareers!????