CELEBRATE HERO PILOT WITH LOCAL ROOTS LANDING PLANE WITH ONE ENGINE AMID NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET REDUX!!!
Across the nation newsies are touting the nerves of steel belonging to a pilot who responded to crisis with exceptional skill and fortitude.
Tammie Jo Shults not only has nearby Kansas roots but also was among first women to pilot U.S. Navy fighter jets.
The plane she guided to safety was completely torn up and one passenger perished and was partially sucked out of the window.
There's an investigation underway and a few theories as to the engine failure.
But none of the assurances from airline officials really explain another Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Tragically, this same kind of mid-flight FAIL killed a passenger in 2016 and torn up engines are more commonplace than travelers realize.
Of course we want everybody to be safe and lament the loss of life. However the mystery of these engine troubles in otherwise safe and well-maintained aircraft might not be mechanical at all.
Check the links . . .
Wired: How Southwest Flight 1380's Pilots Landed With a Blown Engine
KSHB: Investigators are probing fractures in a blade in Southwest engine failure
KSHB: Southwest Airlines pilot involved in emergency landing from Olathe, Kansas
PopMech: Pilot Who Landed Southwest Flight Was One of the First Women to Fly an F/A-18
CNN: Hidden crack in Southwest jet engine at center of NTSB investigation
You decide . . .
Bad thing is, you take the bus and you see even freakier stuff and face worse danger. Statistically speaking.
ReplyDeleteThese problems are not new and not anything most of us have not encountered. The search for hidden cracks is constant and never ending. It seems like the search will never end. Even after finding numerous cracks and thinking that this might be the end of it..., many of us still continue to search. Often, what we find, is that as time goes by, we no longer have the energy to work on the cracks and we just look at them.
ReplyDeleteIt's a sad story and there seems to be no solution to the search for hidden cracks. The blood and treasure expended in this search is incalculable. Historians have found the search for hidden crack to have driven even the ancients out of their minds. In one case, an entire army was sent to retrieve a hidden crack and besieged and entire city for a year in hopes of bringing a particular hidden crack back home to Greece. Only after hiding in a giant, home made WOODen horse, were the hidden crack suplicunts able to breach the city walls and after murdering the inhabitants of the entire city, bring back the hidden crack to it's rightful owners.
Sadly, eve I, would like to have at least had a look at that hidden crack to see just what drove these citizens into such a frenzy.
The search goes on. The mission continues. Lives and fortunes will be risked and lost in this quest.
Our obsession with heroes, please. Those planes can be flown with one engine disabled. She did her job, nothing heroic.
ReplyDelete^^^ Spoken like a true hero from behind a keyboard.
ReplyDeleteHeroes don't use keyboards.
ReplyDeleteHeroes don't text, either.
ReplyDeleteFrom the Book of Heroes (in the earliest versions of the Bible)... "He shalleth take the most ordinary of causes and make them heroic. He shalleth never lose an opportunity to promote thyself, to make the mere act of taking a drink a heroic event...."
ReplyDelete@ 7:50 quit criticizing the President!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant, Chuck, I'm sure the family of the lady that died will appreciate your humorous remarks about the situation!
ReplyDeleteWhen can we expect more of your wisdom, sensitivity and charm?
We are outraged!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is an outrage and a Go Fund Me Page is being set up now, to combat the senseless Hate Speech in comment sections all over Kansas City that will now be forced to acknowledge that "Hidden Cracks Matter" (We'll just use those same pink pussy hats, so, that is a plus.)
ReplyDeleteTHERE WE GO!
ReplyDeleteMore "Chunks of... brilliance", dropping from the... "mind" of Chuck!
Thank you, thank you, he'll be here all day folks, don't forget to tip your Server.
I spent my whole life looking for crack. Yet, I am forgotten.
ReplyDeleteSo many people so jealous of a woman who is better than you! She's a winner! You all(especially 2-buck chuck) are losers. Good for her!
ReplyDeleteCracks on planes....just another failure of the Obama administration. Trump will get this fixed perfectly very soon.
ReplyDelete9:18 Did you say there was Crack on planes?
ReplyDeleteThis place cracks me up!
ReplyDeleteThis pilot admires and appreciates the skill of Tammie Jo Shults.
ReplyDeleteI hope the former Chuck returns.
Hero ? She saved her own ass doing what she is paid to do.
ReplyDeleteThese engines are not safe at any altitudes.
ReplyDeleteTammie Jo Shults accomplished something and saved lives. Join the Star, Kraske, Helling and the rest of the seven dwarfs in idolizing Sly James now that Sanders is no longer viable as a great leader.
ReplyDeleteLeaders solve problems. Ask the families of the recently murdered in Killa City if there are any problems in KC.
^^They would likely say too may geriatric fucktards who do nothing but complain all day.
ReplyDeleteYou know who is really responsible for safe aircraft?
ReplyDelete@realDonaldTrump - Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. Good news - it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record! 9:13 AM - Jan 2, 2018
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