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john cocktosen said:
The flight crew looked like a coupe of grey hairs. And the Faa is cracking down on low timers.

Looks like their barking up the wrong tree.
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Well seeing as the US East average age is 57, that doesn't surprise me.

I'm just saying that it's all well and good to ream the guys out, but any one of us can make any size mistake, some people here need to remember that...
 
The news report, as accurate as that may be, says that nose tires blew, which led to a collapse of the nose gear. Now, I don't know of many planes that have nose wheel brakes, and unless they landed nose gear first, the abusive part of the landing should have been absorbed by the mains. To me, even a heavy set down of the nose should not have caused this incident. I think the investigation will show some kind of mechanical deficiency in the nose gear, possibly along the lines of improperly lubricated/packed nose wheel bearings. I will venture to say that the nose tires did not rotate freely, causing the blowout, which then led to the nose gear buckling under. Or a nose wheel first landing. But I assume that these pilots were a bit better than that. Now if only everyone would assume the same for me...
 
did i not read enough into the press release?

What was "it" that hit him on the head?
 
Minimaniac said:
The news report, as accurate as that may be, says that nose tires blew, which led to a collapse of the nose gear. Now, I don't know of many planes that have nose wheel brakes, and unless they landed nose gear first, the abusive part of the landing should have been absorbed by the mains. To me, even a heavy set down of the nose should not have caused this incident. I think the investigation will show some kind of mechanical deficiency in the nose gear, possibly along the lines of improperly lubricated/packed nose wheel bearings. I will venture to say that the nose tires did not rotate freely, causing the blowout, which then led to the nose gear buckling under. Or a nose wheel first landing. But I assume that these pilots were a bit better than that. Now if only everyone would assume the same for me...
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Watched an MD 80 flown by DL pilots do a nose gear landing in LGA, and they're the best pilots in the history of flying, if you don't believe me just ask one.
 
Got a source? I did a quick web surf and found nothing about cause of death.
 
Wow, how'd you figure that out before the autopsy was completed? Results will be released this afternoon. I know it's in our nature to think ahead, but I'll just wait for the doctors on this one.
 
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Coroner press conference on FOX. The final tests will take weeks, but there was no truama. His heart showed signs of heart disease as well as a blockage.
 
PS Company put us up at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
 
TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- TV pitchman Billy Mays' death appeared to be from heart disease, not a bump to the head, according to the Hillsborough County medical examiner.
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OxiClean pitchman Billy Mays died Sunday morning at his home in Tampa, authorities said.


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Examiners conducted a preliminary autopsy Monday on Mays, the man with the booming voice famous for fronting products such as OxiClean and Orange Glo in TV commercials.
The pitchman was pronounced dead at his home near Tampa, Florida, Sunday morning, after his wife, Deborah, found him unresponsive, Tampa police said.
He was 50.
He had told a friend before he went to sleep Saturday he was not feeling well.
"He said he was groggy, he wasn't feeling that great. He wanted to get some sleep," Todd Schnitt said.
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Mays was on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia that had a hard landing Saturday at Tampa International Airport after the front tire of the plane blew out.
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After the flight, Mays told a Tampa TV station, "All of a sudden as we hit, you know, it was just the hardest hit, all the things from the ceiling started dropping. It hit me on the head, but I got a hard head."
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Airline spokesman Jim Olson told CNN on Sunday there were no reported passenger injuries from Flight 1241. The airline vowed to "cooperate fully" with authorities in the investigation.
 
wms said:
PS Company put us up at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
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Well, I stand corrected.

Still, the preliminary autopsy hasn't been completed yet, according to all other media sources. You originally posted Fox News' conference about 15 minutes ago, which is a long time by intarweb metrics. If the kind folks whose job is to cut up the friendly TV guy had actually said anything, it would have reached somebody else's ears by now.

Waitiaminnit, are you sure you're not thinking of the preliminary Michael Jackson autopsy? That one was inconclusive with signs of heart disease...

EDIT: Ask, and ye shall receive. Cowboy75, afraid your links aren't working. Word is getting around, though.
 
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I KNEW I was forgetting one......


Don't get old. It ain't for weaklings
 
And now, Fred Travalena dies. Okay, I know he wasn't exactly "A" list but the guy was funny and could do some pretty good impressions. Sad.
 

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