Plane Flies Through Duststorm

[Captain Morgan]

Wow!!! Amazing footage! Reminds me of that scene from the movie "Flight of the Phoenix."

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/weat...isappears-into-dust-storm-7-6-2011

 

[Axel]

If you're not scared, it's because you don't understand the situation.

 

[N813CA]

if you saw that coming you would have gotten the hell out of there.

 

[Baronman]

Yeah, I'd chalk this up as "I don't know what the hell that is...but it probably isn't good..."

 

[J32driver]

Yep..screw that noise "Hey approach... we are coming 90 degrees right...make way!"

 

[Pilotbob3]

TUS would have been in order. Bad decision by the SWA pilots!!

 

[Raoul Duke]

give me a break - land and be home for dinner!

 

[SLUF4]

"really bad timing for that poor pilot there"

 

[DieselDragRacer]

Gutsiest move I ever saw.

 

[PropPiedmont]

What about the 2 helicopters in a hover formation filming the haboob blowing right at them?

Who really was rolling the dice?

 

[Captain Morgan]

What about the 2 helicopters in a hover formation filming the haboob blowing right at them?

Who really was rolling the dice?

Yeah no kidding!

 

[Mike man]

I guess I never realized the there was a volcano eruption near PHX

 

[Tomct]

I guess I never realized the there was a volcano eruption near PHX

Just the standard Dust Storm for Phx. Raced one of those suckers to the airport and barely made it inside the FBO before it hit the field. CRAZY!!

 

[Captainzero1]

Gutsiest move I ever saw.

Classic DDR

 

[Palmtree Pilot]

"As you have the air rolling like this depending on which way it's coming from, you've got winds coming in from all directions, the only thing you can do is build up a bunch of air speed, try to push through it if you're coming in to land."

I wouldn't say that is a quote coming from an "expert."

 

[Hamburger]

"There was a lot of decision-making going in there."

Apparently one of those decisions was "we should fly through that".

 

[Sandhawk]

I wouldn't say that is a quote coming from an "expert."

So I see that you know AS, too!

:laugh:

 

[filejw]

TUS would have been in order. Bad decision by the SWA pilots!!

With a little experience in the M E and or North Africa you wouldn't be saying that.