Aircraft has slid off runway at MDW

[macfly]

For a pilot this can't be a good time for them.---Anderson

yeah no kidding. He's calling his stockbroker right now saying sell sell sell.

might be a good time for a gettaway. sorry could'nt resist.

Would the captain have gotten in trouble in they used their alternate? From the looks of it, i'd say getthereistis?

 

[Diesel]

I was thinking...

"picked a bad day to stop sniffin glue."

 

[Guitar rocker]

Almost any minute now I am expecting to see John and Martha King give us all their professional insight as to what happened. They probably just didnt have the carb heat out. Thats gotta be it.

 

[ultrarunner]

31C RVR mins is 4000. This is why rent around Skidway is cheap.

Ahh, but they had "in flight visibility".....

yeah, right.


I'm surprised cooler heads didn't prevail on that one.

Seemed like a an accident waiting to happen....

extremely low vis...

tailwind

short runway

contaminated short runway

prly tanked with fuel given the weather...

In the end, as usual, I'll predict that the NTSB findings won't surprise any of us. And we'll have these guys to thank for that extra 5 hrs of ground school we'll get.


.....

 

[macfly]

Almost any minute now I am expecting to see John and Martha King give us all their professional insight as to what happened. They probably just didnt have the carb heat out. Thats gotta be it.

muahaha!

I have dibs on john having more hair on his lid than martha, she's the funk man!

 

[Guitar rocker]

muahaha!

I have dibs on john having more hair on his lid than martha, she's the funk man!

She needs to start Rogaine immediately if she hasnt already done so.

 

[Almerick07]

Why do they keep cutting off all the people that actually have some credentials for these drunk "eye" witnesses they are pulling out of the bar?

 

[minitour]

muahaha!

I have dibs on john having more hair on his lid than martha, she's the funk man!

Dibs on her having more hair on her upper lip than he.......



Thank GOD someone shut that lady up... "it was like 9/11..." yeah... JUST like that.

-mini

 

[minitour]

Here we go....

"lets explain what a 'go around' is".

This should be good...

-mini

 

[macfly]

Really, what happens when an airfield that meets FAA mins, but the PIC decides that he wants to takes his 100 or so passengers some where else? Does some burley hitman get dispatched from management to off your ass? Do you get labeled a MILF, and get recurrent training?

 

[Diesel]

Two thoughts come to mind. The cops probably put tape around her thinking she was one of the pax on southwest. Drunks at a bar is usually who they fly if you've watched the show airline.

Or the other thought that comes to mind is the plane bounced off her fat gut behind the bar and ended up back on the runway.

 

[ultrarunner]

Here we go....

"lets explain what a 'go around' is".

This should be good...

-mini

Well, Steve Cowell seems reasonalbly articulate. He's a retired pilot that "trained with SWA".

What's that mean?

 

[Guitar rocker]

Ahh, but they had "in flight visibility".....

yeah, right.

.....

I am sure that RVR will be hard to argue with the Feds. Perhaps a little re-training session and they should be good to go.

 

[CaptainPablo]

Call her up!!

Fitzgerald's Pub
(773) 767-5544 5544 W 55TH St
Chicago, IL

 

[Guitar rocker]

Dibs on her having more hair on her upper lip than he.......



Thank GOD someone shut that lady up... "it was like 9/11..." yeah... JUST like that.

-mini

Not to mention her back too.

 

[macfly]

greta van sauasge, something about that mouth. You beast you.

 

[ultrarunner]

Did the gas station survive?

 

[macfly]

Not to mention her back too.

shes uses promade for style.

 

[con-pilot]

I have flown 72s in and out of Midway, and on a good day the pucker factor is very high. Trust me you do not try to grease the airplane on. You bang it in on the end of the runway and jump on the brakes and apply maximum reverse thrust. That’s on a good weather day.
Tonight, just glad I wasn’t trying to get in there.

 

[CaptainPablo]

Rumor has it that Mayor Daley already has the bulldozers and front end loaders staged and ready for demolition on 55th street.....

 

[Guitar rocker]

Really, what happens when an airfield that meets FAA mins, but the PIC decides that he wants to takes his 100 or so passengers some where else? Does some burley hitman get dispatched from management to off your ass? Do you get labeled a MILF, and get recurrent training?

If it was really 3000 RVR at the time, that is below mins for 31C. Technically, it depends where they got the 3000RVR call. Either way, they probably need to head on down to Mr. C's for a cold one.

 

[minitour]

Technically, it depends where they got the 3000RVR call. Either way, they probably need to head on down to Mr. C's for a cold one.

How does that work? Touchdown controlling, right?

So if midfield was 3000 but Touchdown was 4000 they were good to go? Or am I thinking about something else?

-mini

 

[macfly]

I have flown 72s in and out of Midway, and on a good day the pucker factor is very high. Trust me you do not try to grease the airplane on. You bang it in on the end of the runway and jump on the brakes and apply maximum reverse thrust. That’s on a good weather day.
Tonight, just glad I wasn’t trying to get in there.

 

[Guitar rocker]

I have flown 72s in and out of Midway, and on a good day the pucker factor is very high. Trust me you do not try to grease the airplane on. You bang it in on the end of the runway and jump on the brakes and apply maximum reverse thrust. That’s on a good weather day.
Tonight, just glad I wasn’t trying to get in there.

You are right on. I think I lost a little hair and made my underwear a little too brown flying out of there at times.

 

[Buzo]

Wanna, Get Away?

 

[ultrarunner]

Thank god there are pilots like Jim Gugger and Jim Dent that have no lives, that they can volunteer their time on a Fri. night to call CNN...

Oh wait, I'm on flight info...

never mind...

back to the beer and the BJ

 

[Guitar rocker]

How does that work? Touchdown controlling, right?

So if midfield was 3000 but Touchdown was 4000 they were good to go? Or am I thinking about something else?

-mini

You got it right...it's TDZ RVR that counts.

 

[macfly]

If it was really 3000 RVR at the time, that is below mins for 31C. Technically, it depends where they got the 3000RVR call. Either way, they probably need to head on down to Mr. C's for a cold one.

I'd have one, one for chasing down the next half dozen shots that are inbound.:0

 

[minitour]

You got it right...it's TDZ RVR that counts.

Am I correct in assuming that is the one reported on the METAR? or would it be the lowest?

Sorry for the dumbass questions......its been a slow night here.

-mini

 

[Guitar rocker]

back to the beer and the BJ

Now your talking.