8:30 pm Are you watching it? It's an Airbus. I toooold you not to fly on anything Airbus. This is why.
And I'm not too happy about watching this attempted landing live on TV. Geez, and they're talking about which hospitals the crash victims will go to - and the plane is still in the sky. This stinks. If this thing ends in a live broadcast of a crash with fatalities, I swear I'm going to not only reufse to watch cable news stations anymore but I'm going to throw away my TV.
(Note to self: cancel trip to Seattle)
I am always amazed when the things get off the ground and land in one piece, especially when I'm on them. I'm the guy sitting next to you who says: "Wow! We made it."
I have a friend with a small plane ... that is supposed to be the way planes fly.
Posted by: Bill | September 22, 2005 at 12:19 AM
I cannot stand looking at that deer ... I am going on strike unless you pay me more.
Posted by: Bill | September 22, 2005 at 12:20 AM
Hey - I'm just punting here - but isn't Seattle where Airbus's biggest comptetitor is?
Posted by: pops | September 22, 2005 at 12:33 AM
What the media is refusing to tell us is that the flight crew included Al Cowlings in the cockpit and OJ Simpson navigating, contemplating sewerside with a pomegranate held to his head...
Posted by: schmed | September 22, 2005 at 06:30 AM
I was buzzing about, washing the ancetral table linens and paying some attention to "LOST" - but not much. Imagine my surprise when ABC broke into programming so I could...watch...a plane land...
Posted by: Tata | September 22, 2005 at 10:32 AM
Two words: Holy Shit! Just flew on two of them this past week.
Posted by: Jim - PRS | September 22, 2005 at 02:14 PM
I can't believe the landing gear held during the landing even though the whole wheel just scraped off on the runway in a shower of sparks...
That's some good engineering if you ask me!
Full disclosure : Je suis Francais.
Posted by: Mathieu | September 23, 2005 at 12:28 PM