Two more CAL planes get dinged

[densoo]

737 in Newark clipped tail of another plane with its wing. Just a couple of months ago they clipped two RJ tails (and would have clipped two more if ground hadn't frozen the entire ramp).

 

[Mugs]

I hope you aren't suggesting that ground mishaps are somehow unique to CAL.

 

[Doug Parker]

I hope you aren't suggesting that ground mishaps are somehow unique to CAL.

One must only look Southerly and Westerly to find a plethora of ground mishaps....................



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[gkrangers]

Its all those damn low time 5000 hour RJ captains they are hiring!!






/note sarcasm, dont flame me, its a joke people.

 

[densoo]

http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_052071652.html

"A harrowing ordeal for the passengers who had no idea what happened." she says.

How is that possible? If they had no idea it happened, how could it be harrowing to them?

 

[Flying Illini]

b/c if it's described as "harrowing" they can sue the airline for millions of dollars in everything from lost wages to emotional distress.

 

[densoo]

This has been upgraded to the cable news networks.

 

[Lake Alice]

b/c if it's described as "harrowing" they can sue the airline for millions of dollars in everything from lost wages to emotional distress.

This is right up there with the idiots and scumbag lawyers suing MacDonalds over themselves and their children being obese and unhealthy. "I'm sorry Judge, but I didn't know all those french fries would make me fat".

 

[nimtz]

Ah CBS 2 News. So the location of this story went from a 'harrowing collision on runway' to a quiet insert of the tarmac. Love the part at the end about the 'pilot program' to allow planes to fly closer together. They really dug to sex this baby up.

 

[EWR_FO]

"Both planes were evacuated". One was being pushed back by a tug, they both went back to a gate and "evacuated" via the jetways. The media sucks.

 

[MOONBEAM]

Ah CBS 2 News. So the location of this story went from a 'harrowing collision on runway' to a quiet insert of the tarmac. Love the part at the end about the 'pilot program' to allow planes to fly closer together. They really dug to sex this baby up.

What is she talking about, "pilot program"?

 

[Carl_Spackler]

The only thing that I can think of is RVSM, but that is not a pilot program.

 

[gkrangers]

And I'm not sure how RVSM applies to aircraft at the gate.

The only thing that I can think of is RVSM, but that is not a pilot program.

 

[walden]

"A harrowing ordeal for the passengers who had no idea what happened." she says.
How is that possible? If they had no idea it happened, how could it be harrowing to them?

They said they had no idea 'what' had happened, not that they didn't know anything had happened.

 

[FN FAL]

http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_052071652.html

"A harrowing ordeal for the passengers who had no idea what happened." she says.

How is that possible? If they had no idea it happened, how could it be harrowing to them?

Who cares, anybody too scared to ride on an airliner ain't go no dambidness spending their money on an airline ticket. They should give passengers a scare test before they get on an airliner and if being scared bothers them, let the ride on them bus because the airlines don't need no scairdy cats money.

 

[CKJET]

Who cares, anybody too scared to ride on an airliner ain't go no dambidness spending their money on an airline ticket. They should give passengers a scare test before they get on an airliner and if being scared bothers them, let the ride on them bus because the airlines don't need no scairdy cats money.

I once flew with a capt. who would love to practice his steep turns and listin for the screams!! If he could hear screams up in the office he went to the hotel with a smile on his face.

 

[FN FAL]

I once flew with a capt. who would love to practice his steep turns and listin for the screams!! If he could hear screams up in the office he went to the hotel with a smile on his face.

You was my FO? Son of gun, how's it going?

Just kidding...steep turns is one thing, bumping into stuff is entirely something else.

I don't know how airlines are going to sell tickets if you scare the be-jeezus out of the paying customers 100 lot at a time.

 

[Flyer1015]

"Pilot program that lets planes fly closer together"


ROFL !


Is she referring to the change in the flight levels of flights going east/west bound??!?!?!

What a dumb lady!

 

[(o) (o)]

there goes the profit for the year

 

[Blueline]

Sounds like a tall tale to me!

As Flight 587 to Miami headed for the runway, its left wing clipped the tale section of another plane, Flight 1002 to Los Angeles.The tail of the Los Angeles-bound plane was extensively damaged.

 

[Jonny Sacko]

"Both planes were evacuated". One was being pushed back by a tug, they both went back to a gate and "evacuated" via the jetways. The media sucks.

Now that's funny!! Nice Job..:laugh:

 

[EagleRJ]

http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_052071652.html

"A harrowing ordeal for the passengers who had no idea what happened." she says.

How is that possible? If they had no idea it happened, how could it be harrowing to them?

According to that video story, the planes were preparing to take off from the tarmac. That would have been harrowing, too!

Where is the tarmac anyway? I haven't seen tarmac used in airport construction since WWII.