Plane off runway at MDW

3 children, 2 adults, 2 cars, 1 critical injury. jaws of life being used. My thoughts go out to those involved.
 
wow...knowing that all the folks on board are safe and hopefully the pax in the car are too...its entertaining to listen to the commentary from these "subject experts"..the latest was about how icing on the wings could have caused this...give me a freaking break...do they know how stupid they sound on tv?? also on a side note..my best friends' dad is an F/O based in BWI for SWA..currently trying to find out if it was his route..he was flying today..hope it isnt him! :(
 
Doug Taylor said:
Would someone PLEASE call MSNBC and tell them to cut the telephone call from Mary Schialvo.

"If the pilots don't deploy thrust reversers, it can take them 3000 more feet to get the aircraft stopped. They've got to get those engines into reverse airflow so it can stop the aircraft"

Dag'gummit, I don't EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVEN have the time to break that one apart before I hop on the flight home.

I'm still pissed about when she told Matt Lauer that passengers "better start speaking up and banging on the door" if they see ice on the wings of a turboprop in flight -- after the Comair E-120 accident. Hello?! Pneumatic boots?! Gotta build a little, baby!

To think she was in the FAA....
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And ya know, if the FAA/City Council would push clear areas (i.e. not allow people to build stuff right next to an airport) this jet wouldn't be in a street. But, when you build a street 200ft. off the end of a runway,well guess what.

It's kinda like if I doused myself in gasoline every hour on the hour and someone happened to walk by with a match ...
 
"So, Mayor Daley, how has aviation safety improved since closing Meigs?"



Not that this has anything to do with Meigs, just showing how incidents aren't exclusive to 'those little planes'.
 
pilot602 said:
And ya know, if the FAA/City Council would push clear areas (i.e. not allow people to build stuff right next to an airport) this jet wouldn't be in a street. But, when you build a street 200ft. off the end of a runway,well guess what.

It's kinda like if I doused myself in gasoline every hour on the hour and someone happened to walk by with a match ...
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I dont know, but I wonder when the homes were built vs. the apt. Chicaga, any ideas....
 
MQAAord said:
"So, Mayor Daley, how has aviation safety improved since closing Meigs?"



Not that this has anything to do with Meigs, just showing how incidents aren't exclusive to 'those little planes'.
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Except at Meigs the airplane would not have hit anything....except for water
 
Daley must be loving this.....

I hadda put this in....They were interviewing a woman on CNN who saw the plane right after the accident. After minutes of useless mumbling, she said this about the accident: "the plane was in the middle of the road, it was like a 9/11, but without the explosions and stuff." :banghead: :banghead:

If this doesnt sound dumb to you, you should have heard her live.
 
FlyingNole said:
They were interviewing a woman on CNN who saw the plane right after the accident. After minutes of useless mumbling, she said this about the accident: "the plane was in the middle of the road, it was like a 9/11, but without the explosions and stuff." :banghead: :banghead:

If this doesnt sound dumb to you, you should heard her live.
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LOL . . . I heard her! It was pretty bad . . .
 
I caught the first part of that. But she mumbled so much about off topic crap I had to press the magic channel button.
 
I think it's kind of interesting to see where the enroute SWA flights into MDW were diverted to. They were all diverted to the airport which the flight would have continued on from MDW. So if a plane was doing JAN-MDW-MHT...the flight was diverted to MHT. Same with a flight from LAX-MDW-BDL...it is going to BDL.

http://flightaware.com/live/airport/KMDW

Just click on the SWA flights and see where they're diverting to.

Taylor
 
So now what

So now I know all the "officials" are going to go through the audio and try to tear every little move apart that this crew made, however, what is in store for the pilot next? Does the pilot lose their job, released, black flagged, just noted on their files that this occured or what happens? There are so many reports that are negative towards the pilot already on the television and very little consideration to the weather and short run way. It just seems unreal that much would happen to the pilot with these sorts of conditions but then again I am ignorant with this but common sense tells me the news just is making this worse on the flight crew then it really should be? any input?
 
meyers9163 said:
So now I know all the "officials" are going to go through the audio and try to tear every little move apart that this crew made, however, what is in store for the pilot next? Does the pilot lose their job, released, black flagged, just noted on their files that this occured or what happens? There are so many reports that are negative towards the pilot already on the television and very little consideration to the weather and short run way. It just seems unreal that much would happen to the pilot with these sorts of conditions but then again I am ignorant with this but common sense tells me the news just is making this worse on the flight crew then it really should be? any input?
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Depends ...could lose his career or just get a file in his record to nothing at all. Just depends on what REALLY happened and not what a bunch of underpaid people on the TV say.
 
pilot602 said:
Depends ...could lose his career or just get a file in his record to nothing at all. Just depends on what REALLY happened and not what a bunch of underpaid people on the TV say.
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Au contraire!




Overpaid, not underpaid. :)
 
SteveC said:
Au contraire!




Overpaid, not underpaid. :)
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Nope underpaid. Aside from a few anchors the vast majority of reporters make under 30k (starting out you're looking at 12 -17,000)/year.
 
The media won't follow through with the fate of the pilots. Didn't the crew in BUR keep their jobs? And that was their fault.
 
E_Dawg said:
The media won't follow through with the fate of the pilots. Didn't the crew in BUR keep their jobs? And that was their fault.
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I think the one was on probation, and lost it. Other one i think is still flying.
 
CNN now reporting that an 8yr old boy form the accident has passed. I just put my 8yr old to bed an hour ago. My heart goes out to this famliy and those involved.:(
 
JEP said:
I dont know, but I wonder when the homes were built vs. the apt. Chicaga, any ideas....
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The airport has probably been there longer than anything surrounding the airport. It was there back in the days of Ernest Gann. It was the original Chicago airport back on the old mail routes turned airline routes.
 
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