NYPost;
A United Airlines flight from Houston to New York had to be evacuated Sunday morning after the airplane caught on fire during takeoff.
Terrified passengers could be heard panicking in footage obtained by Fox 26. Flames burst out of one of the airplane’s wings as the aircraft began to roll forward for take off. MORE
Dwarf mechanix now?
The boss is currently down in FL and it’s to the point where I worry every time I take her to the SCAREPORT for her travels.
Road trips going forward?
Anymouse
Monday, 3 February 2025, 10:20 at 10:20 am
“Road trips going forward?”
…werent you paying attention to the cars that got roasted in the middle of the street in Philly, or the guy in the diner that got drilled by high-speed airplane partage?
You dont need to be on an airplane to die in an airplane crash.
Just kind of unlucky…
“Firefighters did not put out a fire, fire officials and an IAH spokesperson told The Post.”
..so?
Airplanes have their own extinguishing systems, and sometimes fires go out when you turn off the gas on their own.
Not sure why that detail is relevant, unless folks were mad they didnt get cool YouTube fodder after debarking onto the tarmac…
SNS,
You want lucky?
Here’s lucky (from Irish).
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2025/02/damn-this-guy-is-capital-l-u-c-k-y-lucky.html
@ 10101: one eyed & one handed mechanics, maybe one legged
looks like a plane load of illegals
I don’t know, maybe an aborted takeoff from Houston is a warning to stay out of New York.
…while we’re on the subject, here’s an EXCELLENT pilot video on both pilot and tower issues on the DC crash (some cursing, but not Salty Cracker level)…
https://youtu.be/X3PtOdR_VCc?si=NYFOkS-kQeWRGBZt
…and some more on the PA crash where they found the flight recorder 8 FEET in the ground…
https://www.firerescue1.com/aviation-incidents-airports-and-arff/5-remain-hospitalized-after-fatal-medical-plane-crash-in-philadelphia
“Passengers on Houston to New York United Airlines flight evacuated after plane catches fire on runway”. I think most of them would have evacuated in their seat as soon as they saw the fire.
The US Navy put on airshow for the Shah of Iran on board the Kitty Hawk during the spring of 1974 inside the Persian Gulf. One of my chiefs was almost hit by a flying piece of shrapnel when we were dropping 500 # bombs ahead of the ship trying to impress the Shah with our naval power. The chief was damn lucky that he didn’t get hit by that shrapnel when we were basically killing fish inside the Persian Gulf. I was part of the inspection for the Shah up on the flight deck and fortunately since I worked night check from 7 PM to 7 AM and I was able to go back to my rack shortly after the inspection was over. This was still 4 years prior to Jimmy Carter deposing the Shah and starting all the mess with the mad mullahs in Iran and destabilizing the entire middle east when we were supplying the Iranians with brand new F-14 Tomcats and the support crews to fly them. Thanks for nothing Mr. Peanut, you screwed up big time.