Delta Plane Fire at ATL
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Let'sgoflying!
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um, 'Jettison the tailcone!" - what's up with that?
Steve
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I wondered that, too. Apparently there's an emergency exit still located there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLFJcA3Hlgo&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAndXzhgurI&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4DM0xF7xTE
makes you wonder if the rear slide malfunctioned....
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maddog52
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Did you notice all the Dumb A$$E$ carrying their bags and roll aboards. Morons!!
Fearless Tower
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What's with all those idiots just standing there at the base of the slide????
Doggtyred
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Well. Who is out there telling them what to do?? Where are they supposed to go? Rally points aren't covered on the brief. The flight crew is probably still on the plane...
What's the danger? Is it going to explode like on the movies??
Fearless Tower
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Usually in situations like that, there are at least a few people with common sense to start moving away and the clueless heard tends to follow.
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Part of the evacuation drill for the flight crew at UAL is for the crew to enlist a couple of helper passengers to stand at the bottom of the slide to help people off and send them away from the airplane. What actually happens in the heat of the battle is another thing entirely.
As for the plane "exploding", who knows? Stranger things have been known to happen. I for one wouldn't want to be standing around a burning airplane unless it was in Siberia and I needed to stay warm.
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Is that an MD-80, or an ex NWA DC-9?
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They pretty much trashed that right engine. Foam does bad things to those engines.
It was a Delta MD-88. They didn't renumber the airplanes after the merge.
http://avherald.com/h?article=43d4b095&opt=0
It was a Delta MD-88. They didn't renumber the airplanes after the merge.
http://avherald.com/h?article=43d4b095&opt=0
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Thing is, I don't see why they were spraying the engine to begin with.
Cross union agreement with the mechanics union....:wink2:
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LOL. Wouldn't surprise me.
Keith Lane
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My wife claims that it spontaneously burst into flames because it was so hot here yesterday.
Ohhh............
She's gonna LOVE July and August in Georgia then....
CJones
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Ohhh............
She's gonna LOVE July and August in Georgia then....
She's already been through one summer here (we moved down here Jan 2010), but this will be the first summer that she is sweating for two.
We did the Braves-Padres game today. She has decided that was our last day game until late fall. ha..
Keith Lane
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She's already been through one summer here (we moved down here Jan 2010), but this will be the first summer that she is sweating for two.
We did the Braves-Padres game today. She has decided that was our last day game until late fall. ha..
Well, Congrats then!!!
Maybe you can head over to http://www.gastateparks.org/IndianSprings
to cool down. It worked for us a few times.
Not too far away, either.
Whiskey
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Only if its still turned on, if its off its no big deal compaired to if its on. My dad is a quality control inspector for the airlines; he used to be a mechanic aswell.