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pffft..Displaced thresholds allow you to get off on the first taxi way.
Lowest 737 landing ever...
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Murdoughnut
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An Italian captain putting passengers at risk to showboat for people on a beach? Impossible!
Hacker15e
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Am I missing the part where it was determined that the captain was "showboating for people on a beach" in this video?
All I see in this video is a 737 drug in on final and landing short of the threshold at a short runway (5300') that probably demands hitting the numbers exactly on-speed to ensure stopping distance can be safely met. There's no evidence that I can see that his being drug in and touching down short was motivated by ass-shining.
Pilot Fighter
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Unwarranted, but topical reference to Italian cruise ship disaster.
Yeah, he landed short of the threshold. A 200 foot obstacle clearance zone and elimination of the fence, road, car, people ... and cameras and it wouldn't have been so bad. I thought the FO was just being good-spirited expressing a "yeah, that was too close" acknowledgment.
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dustoff17
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Heaven forbid!
[How can we condemn the pilots before we complete the investigation? Don't we have to to wait for the union rep to intervene? What would firing them do to the "safety culture"?]
OK, I feel better now...........
I saw the aftermath of an airplane hitting the fence at the approach end with the mains and then dragging it down the runway at St Maarten...cool!
Pilot Fighter
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"Maybe it was the auto-throttle", said an aviation journalist somewhere.Heaven forbid!
[How can we condemn the pilots before we complete the investigation? Don't we have to to wait for the union rep to intervene? What would firing them do to the "safety culture"?]
OK, I feel better now...........
I saw the aftermath of an airplane hitting the fence at the approach end with the mains and then dragging it down the runway at St Maarten...cool!
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
...what? I was under the impression there was no proof of a plane ever hitting the fence at Maho Beach and it was all myth?
Murdoughnut
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Call off the NTSB, it was a joke.
pullup
Homewrecker
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Hacker15e
Who am I? Where are my pants?
Yeah, got it -- I missed the Costa Concordia reference.
Murdoughnut
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Baronman
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Thinking that you had to hit the numbers could also inadvertantly lower your level of safety too. Looks like good weather, no RWY contamination. I'm sure he'd be fine landing on speed 1,500' down as his landing data predicates.
JordanD
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I do remember hearing about a guy at St. Barths getting hit and killed by the wheel of an Islander.
jgheggie
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Got a link for the pic or vid? That would be interesting to seeHeaven forbid!
[How can we condemn the pilots before we complete the investigation? Don't we have to to wait for the union rep to intervene? What would firing them do to the "safety culture"?]
OK, I feel better now...........
I saw the aftermath of an airplane hitting the fence at the approach end with the mains and then dragging it down the runway at St Maarten...cool!
dustoff17
Still trying to reach the Top Shelf
I'll see if I can find my personal pics; they are just pics of the gear of the plane the fence hit as it was following the landing aircraft. That was in 2010 so I'm not sur eif i still have them......