--- Curtis Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Jan 18, 2008 8:59 AM, Sid Boyce wrote: > > > From the picture it looks like they were at least > able to retract the > > flaps and that may have helped, a few hundred feet > further up and it > > would have been a greased landing. I guess > problems seldom happen in ones. > > > I was trying to google the news sites for more info > last night and it > doesn't look like the people that know any thing are > talking yet. I saw one > site that indicated the pilot warned the passengers > to assume the standard > brace positions, but then there was a passenger > quote that said everything > seemed fine until they touched down in the wrong > spot. > > If the engines ingested a flock of birds and lost > power, I'm pretty sure the > folks on board would have known that. I've been on > board an A320 when an > engine ate itself and it was extremely clear (based > on the sound/pitch of > the engine and the vibrations it was making) that we > had diverged from a > normal situation. If they lost both engines nearly > simultaneously, then > that would make you wonder about fuel. > > It seems like this one should be pretty easy to > solve, so hopefully we'll > hear exactly what happened very soon. > > Curt. > -- >
Sounds a little bit like the A310-incident in Wien- first the pilot was a herror- then they found out, that the fuel run out due an mistake and errors of the pilot..... still in work: http://www.hoerbird.net/galerie.html But already done: http://www.hoerbird.net/reisen.html Jetzt Mails schnell in einem Vorschaufenster überfliegen. Dies und viel mehr bietet das neue Yahoo! Mail - www.yahoo.de/mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
