MSmith
Line Up and Wait
A Nike jet is going to make an emergency landing at Portland OR. Live on ABC News Now.
MSmith said:Yeah, they're saying Hillborough though they mentioned the possibility of some nearby airport with a 14,000 foot runway.
Greg Bockelman said:Moses Lake has been mentioned as an option.
Greg Bockelman said:Did anyone catch the male anchor's comment on Fox about billing someone for 7 commericial breaks an hour for three or four hours? What was he talking about? He made it sound like Gulfstream, or Nike or someone wasted all that air time by landing safely. MORON.
I think the anchor was probably referring to the pilot or the aircraft owner. I can't imagine that a talking head that suggested that his news director be charged for wasting air time would have a job for long.Dave Krall CFII said:I didn't hear it but it wouldn't bother me to see those kind of presumptive sensationalists pay for their lack of true vision !
Ghery said:The gear is down and he is taxiing back to their hangar.
Let'sgoflying! said:did they not stop and have mx pin the gear?
Yes, they did not. I have no doubt that a military aircraft would have stopped and pinned the gear and then towed the plane in (that's just the way the military is). And I probably would have been spring-loaded to the pin-the-gear position if I had been in N225GV, but they elected not to, and they were in direct communication with Gulfstream's flight test and engineering personnel when they worked out their game plan.Let'sgoflying! said:did they not stop and have mx pin the gear?