Slashdot Mirror
Southwest Airlines Engine Failure Results In First Fatality On US Airline In 9 Years (heavy.com)
schwit1 shares a report from Heavy: Tammie Jo Shults is the pilot who bravely flew Southwest Flight 1380 to safety after part of its left engine ripped off, damaging a window and nearly sucking a woman out of the plane. The flight was en route to Dallas Love airport from New York City, and had to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia. Shults, 56, kept her cool during an incredibly intense situation, audio from her conversation with air traffic controllers reveals, while many passengers posted on social media that they were scared these were their last moments. She, with the help of the co-pilot and the rest of the crew, landed the plane safely. The NTSB reported that there was one fatality out of 143 passengers on board. Some passengers said that someone had a heart attack during the flight, but it's not yet known if this was the fatality reported by the NTSB. The woman who died has been identified by KOAT-TV as Jennifer Riordan, 43, of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
These engines are manufactured a way not to propel debris towards the body. Explosion are also unlikely. Having all that plus some debris break a window is really bad luck for that passenger.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Trump credited himself for the lack of U.S. aviation fatalities during his administration, so this one is on him.
Tammie Jo Shults is the pilot who bravely flew Southwest Flight 1380 to safety after part of its left engine ripped off
So what would have been the cowardly variant? Crashing the plane?
Adjectives have meaning. I mean, I'm glad that part of its left engine hasn't "tragically" ripped off since nowadays everything unfortunate or awful is "tragic". But what the fuck is "brave" about saving your beans? "In an extraordinary display of skills, presence of mind and composure": yeah.
There are a fuckload of reasons to admire her feat. Braveness isn't one.
When you have been on a flight with *REAL* turbulence; the type where if you are not seated and wearing a belt you are going to be smashed like a rag doll off the ceiling and couple of seconds later the floor of the plane you wear your seat belt on a plane for every second it is possible to do so.
Perhaps living in europe where wearing seat belts are compulsory by law in a car we are more used to wearing restraining belts for long periods of time.
Regardless not wearing a seat belt while seated on a plane is a pointless risk to take in my view.
It interferes with their freedom.
yes, it makes it harder for them to draw their gun
Eh, "bravely" means exactly what we get from hearing the pilot in her interaction with air traffic control. According to the dictionary brave is someone: ready to face and endure danger or pain; showing courage. So, she definitely seemed ready and showed courage (presence of mind and composure as you yourself say) in the face of danger.
Brave does not mean removing the headphone jack from a phone ("dick move" is more appropriate), brave does not mean jumping in the flames for fun ("reckless" is more appropriate).
I was impressed by that audio, the air traffic guy seemed much more upset when he started hearing about parts of the plane missing etc than the pilot. If she was not brave, her voice would either start braking or show panick, and the outcome of the ordeal might not have been as favorable for the passengers.
> These engines are manufactured a way not to propel debris towards the body.
This statement is factually wrong.
When an uncontained engine failure happens - and they do happen - fragments of the blade can travel in any direction. It is random. In this case it looks like a piece went through the window. In that case, it is lucky no passengers were killed by a fragment.
If you want to read just how badly a plane can be damaged by an uncontained engine failure, read up on what happened to QF32:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_32
To give you an idea of how bad it was, the A380 has redundant cabling for controlling engines, etc, and fragments from the engine explosion took out both primary and secondary paths. It is a amazing that plane landed. And if the pictures are anything to go by in this scenario, the plane may also have suffered damage to control surfaces or wiring that also hampered flying the aircraft.
Every US flight I've been on in the last 10 years strongly encourages passengers to keep their seat belts buckled whenever they are seated, specifically because of the risk of turbulence. I haven't done a scientific study, but I think most passengers do stay buckled up. The most frequent exceptions would be pre-school-aged children, and sometimes their parents.
When you look at the photo: https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/da... It looks like a single blade is missing. If the blade breaks and flies to the cabin, like a dagger, ripping things on the way, I can understand. But how did the whole front cowling get ripped in all directions? or did the wind rip pieces after the structure was damaged?
Well of course he knows. Q is omnipotent. I'm just puzzled why he's here in 2018 instead of messing with Starfleet officers in the future.
It's because Nero changed future history, and Picard is now (or rather will be) the sexy counsellor on the USS GaySulu.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
You must be new here, but actually there is an article attached to this story.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
You're using an extreme example.
That's how we pass crazy and extreme laws. "If it save just one kids life..."
Ex-Navy F-18 pilot.
Nothing teachers you about staying calm like landing on a pitching deck at night...in the rain and high winds.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Indeed, it has since been proven both mathematically and experimentally that it’s physically impossible for Shatner to act, yet here he is doing it.
Blank until
As a pilot: my CFI told me it wasn't really turbulence until your head hit the ceiling with your seatbelt still on.
Then that kept happening to me! (I am a lot taller than him...)
while (sig==sig) sig=!sig;