Roger that. This news reporter said:
Not the best time to tell everyone to sit tight while we assess the situation. It might be dangerous outside, but it’s sure death inside.
Yes, but I find it interesting that the ghost plane had to be slowed down from the ideal speed to be compared to the Asiana flight. If not, it would have been much farther (and safely) down the runway, out of view.
Like I said, yet another failure in judgement by this crew. In this accident it should have been beyond obvious that it was time to get out.
At least at the airlines I have flown for and the airlines my wife has worked for, it is fairly typical to brief the flight attendants that if THEY see the need to evacuate then they should initiate it and let us know up front.
After reviewing the current level of evidence they ceased being in charge of anything after that landing. What was once an airplane was now an open shell full of densely packed people who are sitting above smoking hot metal and ruptured fuel tanks.
I had a hard time telling what was on the (phone?) video but it sure looked low to the ground.
The view out of the cockpit would have looked very wrong even to a student pilot who just solo’d. The PAPI lights would have been a verification that they were off the glide slope and that error was in fact getting worse. It’s much more dramatic at night but it’s still staring at them right in the face. That wasn’t just a go-around, that was an emergency in every sense of the word.
Barring a mechanical or some other external factor, the plane was at stall speed below the glide slope. It will be interesting to see the flight data plugged into a simulator.
Oh dear. KTVU, in the Bay Area, thought they had the pilots names from the NTSB and read them on the air. They were…incorrect about their source.
Ironically providing yet another example of something that a professional in their field should have been expected to just look at it and know it was wrong, yet somehow went right ahead with it. Like the botched approach.
News production job opening at KTVU, inquire at HR office.
A third passenger has passed away from her injuries.
it was a kid.
Sad
Got the bubble headed bleached blond
Who comes on at 5
She can tell you bought the plane crash
With a gleam in her eye
Today’s media doesn’t care about being right, only about being first. :rolleyes:
Really enjoying everyone’s commentary and insights, thanks so very much. I’m from a Boeing family, and while I’m not in the aerospace or airline industries, planes are in my blood. My Dad was a customer service engineering supervisor in maintenance publications for the 747, then later the 757 and 767. I lost him years ago, but in reading some of your comments, it feels like I could be talking to him.
The video of the A380 landing at SFO was fascinating, even though it was an Airbus. :dubious: 
Turns out, the source was the NTSB, although it was a summer intern there.
I suspect that person will soon be a former summer intern.
And sooner still getting a salary at, say, The Onion, or some workplace where chutzpah is particularly valued. Could have been a calculated risk by said intern.
I wouldn’t assume an intern is unpaid. A lot of them aren’t, but the NTSB is not private, corporate America. Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if the intern did get a paycheck.
Not anymore, I’d expect.
NTSB says the intern was a student volunteer answering phones who should be transferring calls.
The investigation is not finished yet.
Sequester in action?
Very possible.
Keep in mind, pulling a stunt like this using gov’t assets, even if it is just a phone or computer for an email, is probably against some statute. If you embarrass an agency at a national level like this with a prank, they will likely look for any possible way to prosecute you.
And BBC TV has just confirmed that one girl who died was indeed run over by an emergency-response vehicle on the tarmac.