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BREAKING NEWS: Delta jet slides off runway in Atlanta

#1 Postby Brent » Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:07 pm

According to Fox 5 Atlanta. It had just taken off headed for St. Louis, it turned around due to some kind of mechanical problem, was landing on runway 8L and slid off in the grass. The weather is pretty bad there right now with heavy rain.
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#2 Postby Brent » Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:13 pm

http://www.11alive.com/news/news_articl ... ryid=57431
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#3 Postby Lindaloo » Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:14 pm

But yet you are safer in a plane? NOT!! Hope everyone is okay.
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#4 Postby Brent » Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:20 pm

Lindaloo wrote:But yet you are safer in a plane? NOT!! Hope everyone is okay.


LOL... your still safer than in your car. I can't even count on two hands the number of wrecks in Atlanta today.

There hasn't been a fatal jetliner crash in the U.S. since January 2003(and that was a commuter plane). Last big jet was in November 2001 in New York City.

Anyway, this just looks like a normal mishap. Probably not even any injuries.
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#5 Postby Lindaloo » Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:26 pm

I don't live in Atlanta. I am backwoods. LOL!! Okay wxcrazy, I could not resist.

A NORMAL MISHAP??? Leave me out. I hope there are no injuries.
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#6 Postby Brent » Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:30 pm

Lindaloo wrote:I don't live in Atlanta. I am backwoods. LOL!! Okay wxcrazy, I could not resist.

A NORMAL MISHAP??? Leave me out. I hope there are no injuries.


Planes skid off runways quite a bit when it's wet. Millions of people are flying right now and there's one incident where the plane is stuck in the mud. ONE!
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#7 Postby Lindaloo » Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:48 pm

Yeah but it also turned around and came back to the airport with mechanical problems. Just think if they had been farther from the airport?
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#8 Postby Brent » Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:31 pm

Lindaloo wrote:Yeah but it also turned around and came back to the airport with mechanical problems. Just think if they had been farther from the airport?


True... but, it was just one engine out. A 737 can land without one engine, so they could have landed at the nearest airport like Memphis or Birmingham etc.
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#9 Postby Guest » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:17 pm

Lindaloo wrote:I don't live in Atlanta. I am backwoods. LOL!! Okay wxcrazy, I could not resist.

A NORMAL MISHAP??? Leave me out. I hope there are no injuries.


hehehe. :hehe:
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#10 Postby Skywatch_NC » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:20 pm

When I lived in Cincy there were even occasional instances of an airliner sliding off a runway there at the Greater Cincy Int'l. Airport due to snow...but rain or snow...well, Mother Nature has her tricks at times! :wink:

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#11 Postby Guest » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:23 pm

Lindaloo wrote:But yet you are safer in a plane? NOT!! Hope everyone is okay.


This is exibit A of why i dont fly. Hope all is well as well.
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#12 Postby nystate » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:26 pm

KingOfWeather wrote:
Lindaloo wrote:But yet you are safer in a plane? NOT!! Hope everyone is okay.


This is exibit A of why i dont fly. Hope all is well as well.


A plane gets stuck in the mud and you won't fly? That's like getting in a fender-bender and swearing never to ride in a car again... :wink:

Tell me, how many fatal car accidents have storms in the past couple of years caused in the US? Probably hundreds, if not thousands.

How many fatal jet airliner accidents have storms caused in the past couple of years in the US? None.
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#13 Postby Guest » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:30 pm

nystate wrote:
KingOfWeather wrote:
Lindaloo wrote:But yet you are safer in a plane? NOT!! Hope everyone is okay.


This is exibit A of why i dont fly. Hope all is well as well.


A plane gets stuck in the mud and you won't fly? That's like getting in a fender-bender and swearing never to ride in a car again...


I have always had a fear of flying and if you notice it also had mechanical problems as well. Yeah i know stats say otherwise but i'll still pass.
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#14 Postby nystate » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:36 pm

Just to make y'all feel better.... :wink:

From the FAA: "Air travel is the safest mode of mass transportation. According to Dr. Arnold Barnett of MIT, based on the accident rate over the last few years, you would have to fly on average once a day every day for 22,000 years before you would perish in a U.S. commercial aviation accident. In 1998 there were more than 10 million departures and not one fatality aboard a commercial aircraft."

According to statistics, you are 9,277times more likely to die driving in a car then you are on an airliner.
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#15 Postby Brent » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:39 pm

nystate wrote:Just to make y'all feel better.... :wink:

From the FAA: "Air travel is the safest mode of mass transportation. According to Dr. Arnold Barnett of MIT, based on the accident rate over the last few years, you would have to fly on average once a day every day for 22,000 years before you would perish in a U.S. commercial aviation accident. In 1998 there were more than 10 million departures and not one fatality aboard a commercial aircraft."

According to statistics, you are 9,277times more likely to die driving in a car then you are on an airliner.


I knew it was safer, but WOW. :eek:
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