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Post by LilyRose on Aug 4, 2016 0:14:22 GMT
Have you seen the footage of the crash landing in Dubai? Here's the news report, complete with cell phone footage: www.facebook.com/WorldNewsTonight/videos/10154056948994818/A few comments: first, those people are very lucky. As I watch the engine on fire after they hit the ground, well, that could have exploded sooner with a different outcome. The onboard cell phone footage is especially interesting to me. Now, I like to take a lot of photos and videos with my phone. But I am fairly certain that, if I'm on a plane that has just skidded down the runway, smoke is all around, and they've deployed the emergency slides--im not stopping to pull out my phone. I'm also not opening the overhead bin to grab my luggage. People! Get off the damn plane! Go, and go quickly! |
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Post by femalebusiness on Aug 4, 2016 0:28:08 GMT
I heard about this earlier today but didn't get a chance to see it until just now. Good lord get off the damned plane and leave your luggage.
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Post by brandy327 on Aug 4, 2016 0:43:16 GMT
I heard about this earlier today but didn't get a chance to see it until just now. Good lord get off the damned plane and leave your luggage. That's exactly what I just said to my dh. Seriously people, the friggin' thing just exploded with fire...get yo ass off the plane. |
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Post by femalebusiness on Aug 4, 2016 0:47:09 GMT
brandy327 you look GREAT!!! Love your new avatar pic.
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Post by brandy327 on Aug 4, 2016 0:50:54 GMT
brandy327 you look GREAT!!! Love your new avatar pic. Awww, thank you.  The lbs are getting more difficult to lose now and it gets frustrating but I'm seeing some loss of inches so I keep pushing. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 1:00:47 GMT
SMH at people going for their luggage.  |
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Post by mom on Aug 4, 2016 1:02:06 GMT
Priorities people! Leave your shit and get off the plane.
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Post by christine58 on Aug 4, 2016 1:11:44 GMT
A fire fighter was killed when the plane exploded.
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Post by kernriver on Aug 4, 2016 2:16:04 GMT
I am just dumbfounded how stupid people are. Smoke on an airplane is a very, very bad sign. Stopping to get your luggage is totally ridiculous. I'm curious to find out exactly what caused this.
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Post by MDscrapaholic on Aug 4, 2016 2:32:56 GMT
Wow. Just wow.
They're lucky to be alive.
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Post by LilyRose on Aug 4, 2016 2:44:50 GMT
I am just dumbfounded how stupid people are. Smoke on an airplane is a very, very bad sign. Stopping to get your luggage is totally ridiculous. I'm curious to find out exactly what caused this. I've heard some speculation that the pilots forgot to lower the landing gear??? |
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Aug 4, 2016 3:27:39 GMT
The last thing I'm going to do is stop and grab luggage on my way out of a burning plane. And if anyone in front of me does, I'm bulldozing right over them. Priorities people! I am truly surprised there weren't more injured. Have been on many flights in that region and it never fails that the second the plane touches the tarmac, they are up and grabbing things out of the overhead bins. I've heard some speculation that the pilots forgot to lower the landing gear??? I just heard that. The pilots had over 7,000 hrs between them, so it's hard to believe they would make such a mistake. Hopefully it is mechanical error and not human, though neither is good. |
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Post by Merge on Aug 4, 2016 3:33:42 GMT
A fire fighter was killed when the plane exploded. I'm very sorry to read this. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 6:08:41 GMT
Years ago, when I used to listen to the safety drill, I always figured I'd still grab my carry-on because camera! Computer! Favorite pants!
The older I get, the more I realize just how replaceable those things are. Nothing but another slowpoke person would stand between me and getting off that plane.
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Post by gar on Aug 4, 2016 10:02:46 GMT
Each person grabbing their luggage is thinking "It won't take a minute" but all those moment added together obviously does mean that overall it takes longer for everyone to get off!!
I can't believe you can forget landing gear - there must be alarms, checks etc surely??!!!?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 11:01:22 GMT
Each person grabbing their luggage is thinking "It won't take a minute" but all those moment added together obviously does mean that overall it takes longer for everyone to get off!! I can't believe you can forget landing gear - there must be alarms, checks etc surely??!!!?Exactly! I can't believe that anyone would even think that he forgot just because there was no visual sight of the landing gear.( don't mean you gar but the media reporting such speculation ) It's far more likely it jammed and he was too low to go back up again. I'm glad that everyone got out safely, no thanks to the idiots that were collecting their baggage but to the professionalism of the cabin crew IMO and it's really very sad that one of the firefighters lost his life. |
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