Southwest off the runway at MDW

[Dennis Miller]

Atty: Too Early To Say If Southwest Air Will Be Sued -CNN

Unbelievable. The poor child just died and we get the leeches.


Atty: Too Early To Say If Southwest Air Will Be Sued -CNN

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- The attorney for the family of a six-year-old boy killed in an accident involving a Southwest Airlines plane said Friday it was " too early" to discuss whether the airline would be sued.

Ronald Stearney told Cable News Network that Southwest has been in touch with the family of Joshua Woods of Leroy, Ind. and "extended its condolences and concern."

 

[mdf]

Are you looking to threaten me and my family? I already apologized for my inadvertant small joke about the situation and on behalf of some of the other poorly timed comments made by others. Now, you are presenting yourself as a mentally unstable individual trying to take it to another level and that's way of line. You are hiding behind a handle as much as anyone else so don't be a jerk about it. That's not cool.

I am not threatening anyone. I am pointing out that some of you are saying things on this forum, that you would never say in person. The fact that you know that, and still do it makes you "weak" in my personal opinion. I would say that makes you "mentally unstable". All you are doing is confirming my initial comments. Nice try at the spin, though.

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

ntsb just held a conf

wind 090/9

airspeed at touchdown 123 kts

brake condition at the end of runway nil

 

[Dumbluck]

Why is small children or pregnant women, or a father of 3?

Why not a van full of lawyers or a criminal whose freed on a technicallity?

 

[PacoPollo]

Unbelievable. The poor child just died and we get the leeches.


Atty: Too Early To Say If Southwest Air Will Be Sued -CNN

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- The attorney for the family of a six-year-old boy killed in an accident involving a Southwest Airlines plane said Friday it was " too early" to discuss whether the airline would be sued.

Ronald Stearney told Cable News Network that Southwest has been in touch with the family of Joshua Woods of Leroy, Ind. and "extended its condolences and concern."

There goes SW future fuel hedges.....$$$$

 

[Sarsipius]

ntsb just held a conf

wind 090/9

airspeed at touchdown 123 kts

brake condition at the end of runway nil

Actually what she said in the news conference was that the first part of the runway was reported as fair and the end portion was reported as poor. never was nil mentioned.

 

[Fly2Scuba]

I am not threatening anyone. I am pointing out that some of you are saying things on this forum, that you would never say in person. The fact that you know that, and still do it makes you "weak" in my personal opinion. I would say that makes you "mentally unstable". All you are doing is confirming my initial comments. Nice try at the spin, though.

You still can't accept an apology and seem vindictive and yes "mentally unstable" being that's the case. Because of the fact that some people get so bent of shape in todays society is part of the reason for an anoymous message board. Over sensitivity in real life leads to irrational responses up to including lawsuits, death threats, etc. So learn to accept an apology and realize that some of us consider a message board a place to freely exchange without all the formal proper pleasantries most of us use in real life. Also, you can't go around hiding behind a flightinfo name calling people names, calling them "weak" while bashing them about not divulging their true identities. That's hypocritical.

 

[Bandit60]

Are you saying you make up your own limitation and performance numbers instead of using the approved performance information? Or, as I suspect, are you saying you like to wag a couple of extra feet in your numbers to give yourself a larger margin of safety?

Not being sure about how the landing distance is calculated contributed to chain of events that lead to the FedEx MD-11 accident in EWR. As I recall, they thought the landing distance was calculated from the glideslope intercept and not the end of the runway - thus leading them to believe they had less performance than they had.

Regardless, you have to know what your own numbers are predicated on - runway length or glideslope.

Now...back to the SWA discussion....

All I was saying is that the runway before the glide slope is not usable runway, so you have to look at you performance based on the runway available not runway behind you.

My point is, I have seen people just look at the runway distance and not take into consideration the displaced thresholds or the glideslope usable runway.

So explain to me how the guys in the MD-11 got into trouble by thinking they didnt have the numbers. Did they use a more suitable runway or what? I dont really remember what the accident was about?

 

[canyonblue737]

All I was saying is that the runway before the glide slope is not usable runway, so you have to look at you performance based on the runway available not runway behind you.

My point is, I have seen people just look at the runway distance and not take into consideration the displaced thresholds or the glideslope usable runway.

So explain to me how the guys in the MD-11 got into trouble by thinking they didnt have the numbers. Did they use a more suitable runway or what? I dont really remember what the accident was about?

let me end this entire discussion by saying that SWA uses an FAA approved and sophiscated onboard portable computer system which uses custom data for every runway in its entire system, combined with current weather, runway condition data, specific airplane model and tail number, aircraft weight, runway USEABLE LENGTH (made even shorter automatically in poor weather as a conservative factor), runway slope, obstacles, glideslope angle etc. to show specific landing margins and clearly state if you can safely land. this system is used for every single landing of SWA 3000+ daily flights and can be updated and checked on a moment to moment basis if necessary.

now that data is only good if sources coming from ATC and other planes is accurate.

 

[Sarsipius]

let me end this entire discussion by saying that SWA uses an FAA approved and sophiscated onboard portable computer system which uses custom data for every runway in its entire system, combined with current weather, runway condition data, specific airplane model and tail number, aircraft weight, runway USEABLE LENGTH (made even shorter automatically in poor weather as a conservative factor), runway slope, obstacles, glideslope angle etc. to show specific landing margins and clearly state if you can safely land. this system is used for every single landing of SWA 3000+ daily flights and can be updated and checked on a moment to moment basis if necessary.

now that data is only good if sources coming from ATC and other planes is accurate.

You tell em ****!

How you been?

JD