Plane crash

[Hockham Admiral]

Hear! Hear!       

[Siddy]

All this with planes hasn't gone down too well with mate I work with, he got a pleasure flight out of Leeds for his birthday and told him it's like sat in a old VW Beetle with wings. Well we've try'd talking him round to get himself up in the air but 30mins ago I got a text offering me the trip. Last time I did this out of Leeds I came in on rw28 which crossed the main runway this has since long gone.

[ChrisB]

At the end of the 80s start of the 90s I was based at the Silvertown International Paint facility. I used Stolport every week to fly to our office in Lille. 

Those were the days before the runway was extended and only two planes could use the airport the Dash 7 and a Dornier as the approach angle was 7+ degrees. Once extended jets came in at 5.5 degrees.

I loved flying out of there in the early days as you just turned up fifteen minutes before takeoff, grab your dutyfree and away. Parking was outside the entrance. Have to say landing was not for the nervous flyer.

[lincan]

Hello All,

ChrisB, it sounds as as though it was as good as it looked! The were a few occasions when a plane would have to abort its' landing at the last knockings, that must have been exciting too for those onboard! 

[Hockham Admiral]

To be technically correct you abort, or stop, a take off and overshoot or go-around from an approach.

[Jonathan]

David Gunson explains this clearly in his after-dinner speech recording:

"What goes up might come down"

Which was originally released, at least 20 years ago, on both sides of an LP.  I just found a copy at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KbUNzi58wM

 

Edited September 8, 2015 by Jonathan

[CooWee]

Thanks for the post Jonathan, it brought back some good memories. I used to know David (Bunny) Gunson and he was a funny man and a good footballer to boot (sorry).  He was a controller in the Air Traffic Control and we used go around (sorry again) playing football against other airports as Birmingham Airport.  I can remember playing against such as Manchester and Gatwick.  He was blessed with a great dry sense of humour, even on a football pitch.  Excellent after dinner speaker, one of the best I've ever come across.

again.

[Hockham Admiral]

It's not looking good for Boeing 777's...

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/09/british-airways-plane-catches-fire-at-las-vegas-airport

[Maxwellian]

There is a video of them evacuating the plane and some of the passengers have taken their on board luggage off with them. Down the inflatable chutes.

[Hockham Admiral]

I guess if they had their laptops or handbags out when it happened they might have thought it was OK to do so. Hopefully they didn't stop to open the overhead lockers......

Let's just be happy it didn't take place a minute later.

[RayandCarole]

Obviosly not paying attention to the safety briefings as usual, good job it wasnt a full flight

Ray

[Maxwellian]

No some had the trolley cases. 

[Hockham Admiral]

Ian, words just totally fail me... I nearly resorted to swearing but substituted "totally"!

They are just both plain selfish and stupid.   

Ray summed it up.

[TheQ]

Suitcases and escape chutes probably explain some of the minor injuries on exit.

[Maxwellian]

Here is the link to the BBC page commenting on it. It appears we are not the only ones with that view.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34191035

 

[Hockham Admiral]

I've just read that link, Ian, and I truly do despair.... I was fortunate enough, until late in my career, to mainly deal with freight which neither talks back nor is selfish and stupid..... SLF is a whole different ball game...

[dnks34]

SLF - Self Loading Freight??

[Hockham Admiral]

SLF.....

I like it.

 

In our industry we use the term Perambulating Cargo

R

It's a phrase that was mainly used by freight pilos, Rod, but now adopted by all. I like yours, too!

Posted 1 hour ago by macroft1

SLF - Self Loading Freight?? 

Spot on!