Follow up to the Brazillian airport crash.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289931,00.html Apparently they would like to shut it down.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289931,00.html Apparently they would like to shut it down.
public static void DoSomething() { DoSomethingElse(); } public static void DoSomethingElse() { Dosomething(); }
Clickety for the article[^]. It is a shame that 170+ people perished, and the day of the accident, news people were reporting how officials had been warned about the runway being too short for bigger planes. Landing on the 6,362-foot runway at Congonhas airport is so challenging that pilots liken it to an aircraft carrier — if they don't touch down within the tarmac's first 1,000 feet, they're warned to pull up and circle around again. The ungrooved runway becomes even more treacherous in the rain, when it turns into a slick landing surface. That kind of sums it up. Too short of a run way, and how hard would it be to groove the runway to make landing it wet weather safer?
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Clickety for the article[^]. It is a shame that 170+ people perished, and the day of the accident, news people were reporting how officials had been warned about the runway being too short for bigger planes. Landing on the 6,362-foot runway at Congonhas airport is so challenging that pilots liken it to an aircraft carrier — if they don't touch down within the tarmac's first 1,000 feet, they're warned to pull up and circle around again. The ungrooved runway becomes even more treacherous in the rain, when it turns into a slick landing surface. That kind of sums it up. Too short of a run way, and how hard would it be to groove the runway to make landing it wet weather safer?
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
I don't know... That airport's runway is only 600 feet shorter than LaGuardia's[^] and about the same length as Midway's[^]. I've landed more times than I can count into Midway on 737-800's (which are comparable to A320s in size) in rain, snow and shine. My uneducated guess is still that the pilot overshot the runway and rather than aborting, touched down.
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I don't know... That airport's runway is only 600 feet shorter than LaGuardia's[^] and about the same length as Midway's[^]. I've landed more times than I can count into Midway on 737-800's (which are comparable to A320s in size) in rain, snow and shine. My uneducated guess is still that the pilot overshot the runway and rather than aborting, touched down.
I remember that Midway had that runway overshoot last year.
Red Stateler wrote:
the pilot overshot the runway and rather than aborting, touched down
Who knows? Can't really ask him now. I am wondering about the runway being too slick from the rain. There are many possible factors, wet runway, pilot experience, etc. I read in the one yahoo article someone said the plane did the span of the runway in 3 seconds, whereas normal operation planes take about 11. Sounds like they came in too hard.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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I remember that Midway had that runway overshoot last year.
Red Stateler wrote:
the pilot overshot the runway and rather than aborting, touched down
Who knows? Can't really ask him now. I am wondering about the runway being too slick from the rain. There are many possible factors, wet runway, pilot experience, etc. I read in the one yahoo article someone said the plane did the span of the runway in 3 seconds, whereas normal operation planes take about 11. Sounds like they came in too hard.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
Paul Conrad wrote:
I remember that Midway had that runway overshoot last year.
It happens. But I should think the pilot would compensate in such a case. If he overshot the runway, he should probably have throttled up, come around again and face the embarassment and months of ridicule, rather than attempt to land before realizing it was too late.
Paul Conrad wrote:
Who knows? Can't really ask him now. I am wondering about the runway being too slick from the rain. There are many possible factors, wet runway, pilot experience, etc.
I'm sure there's data about what happened. My guess is just that it will wind up being pilot error once the investigation is complete.
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Paul Conrad wrote:
I remember that Midway had that runway overshoot last year.
It happens. But I should think the pilot would compensate in such a case. If he overshot the runway, he should probably have throttled up, come around again and face the embarassment and months of ridicule, rather than attempt to land before realizing it was too late.
Paul Conrad wrote:
Who knows? Can't really ask him now. I am wondering about the runway being too slick from the rain. There are many possible factors, wet runway, pilot experience, etc.
I'm sure there's data about what happened. My guess is just that it will wind up being pilot error once the investigation is complete.
Red Stateler wrote:
face the embarassment and months of ridicule
Rather than pushing up daisies :sigh:
Red Stateler wrote:
data about what happened. My guess is just that it will wind up being pilot error once the investigation is complete
Seems like it could be so. Stay tuned with the news.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289931,00.html Apparently they would like to shut it down.
public static void DoSomething() { DoSomethingElse(); } public static void DoSomethingElse() { Dosomething(); }
In here (Brazil, where I live) people only start solving a problem after it becomes a tragedy. I just hope the reaction doesn't degenerate into a blame game and political pandering. I used the Congonhas airport a few times before and I think that under responsible management it is a safe airport. You just need to avoid big airplanes (the runway is small, indeed) and do a proper maintenance (it looks this was not the case).
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
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In here (Brazil, where I live) people only start solving a problem after it becomes a tragedy. I just hope the reaction doesn't degenerate into a blame game and political pandering. I used the Congonhas airport a few times before and I think that under responsible management it is a safe airport. You just need to avoid big airplanes (the runway is small, indeed) and do a proper maintenance (it looks this was not the case).
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
Diego Moita wrote:
I just hope the reaction doesn't degenerate into a blame game and political pandering.
Ummmm...A little too late for that.
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In here (Brazil, where I live) people only start solving a problem after it becomes a tragedy. I just hope the reaction doesn't degenerate into a blame game and political pandering. I used the Congonhas airport a few times before and I think that under responsible management it is a safe airport. You just need to avoid big airplanes (the runway is small, indeed) and do a proper maintenance (it looks this was not the case).
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
Diego Moita wrote:
I just hope the reaction doesn't degenerate into a blame game and political pandering.
There is an alternative to this!?! do tell. :laugh:
public static void DoSomething() { DoSomethingElse(); } public static void DoSomethingElse() { Dosomething(); }
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I remember that Midway had that runway overshoot last year.
Red Stateler wrote:
the pilot overshot the runway and rather than aborting, touched down
Who knows? Can't really ask him now. I am wondering about the runway being too slick from the rain. There are many possible factors, wet runway, pilot experience, etc. I read in the one yahoo article someone said the plane did the span of the runway in 3 seconds, whereas normal operation planes take about 11. Sounds like they came in too hard.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
Paul Conrad wrote:
I remember that Midway had that runway overshoot last year.
crashed into a car killing a kid didn't it
God Bless, Jason
Paul Conrad wrote:
Chuck Norris keeps the hamsters going whenever Chris is gone on vacation. Just stares them down and they keep the servers going
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Paul Conrad wrote:
I remember that Midway had that runway overshoot last year.
crashed into a car killing a kid didn't it
God Bless, Jason
Paul Conrad wrote:
Chuck Norris keeps the hamsters going whenever Chris is gone on vacation. Just stares them down and they keep the servers going
Yes, it did. That was just a sad case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Diego Moita wrote:
I just hope the reaction doesn't degenerate into a blame game and political pandering.
There is an alternative to this!?! do tell. :laugh:
public static void DoSomething() { DoSomethingElse(); } public static void DoSomethingElse() { Dosomething(); }
Minosknight wrote:
There is an alternative to this!?!
There really isn't. Blaming, political pandering, finger-pointing, it is all a part of the natural course of following up from a disaster.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus