successful ditching in the pacific this morning

[ultrarunner]

News said the plane was enroute to Hawaii. Appeared to be a small SE t-tail type.

The Chineese picked up the crew. Which is kind a scary...

 

[FL420]

NW Pilot and mav1morrison. You guys okay?

 

[Amish RakeFight]

The Chineese picked up the crew. Which is kind a scary...

Why is that?
(I know you're being ethnocentric)

More fortuitious than drowning.

 

[FN FAL]

The Chineese picked up the crew. Which is kind a scary...

why, were they CHICKEN?

Hahahahahahahaha.

 

[Hold West]

News said the plane was enroute to Hawaii. Appeared to be a small SE t-tail type.

The Chineese picked up the crew. Which is kind a scary...

Was two VH-registered Seminoles. One developed a problem, they had about 5 hours warning. USCG C-130 and a Navy P-3 on hand to assist, and they ditched near a Maltese-registered ship enroute to China. Story and photo of the floating bird here.

 

[CA1900]

VH is Australia, if you don't want to look it up like I had to.

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=-1]It was 1,000 miles off the coast of California when the female pilot reported engine trouble but decided against turning back, Epiceno said.

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Hang on, let me get my beer and popcorn for this one....

 

[Way2Broke]

Female pilot hu? This should be a testament to the fact that it does not matter if you are purple, red, white, black, female, or male, either you can fly or you can't! Anyone that says otherwise is an idiot.

 

[Thresh]

I'm a little confused about the range here. They were flying from California to Hawaii in a Seminole?

 

[wmuflyguy]

I'm a little confused about the range here. They were flying from California to Hawaii in a Seminole?

Porbably only had the front seats in the airplane and a ferry tank installed where the passenger seats would be.

 

[PacoPollo]

I thought the PA44 was ETOPS certified...