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re: Updated: Woman gets partially sucked out of airplane window **1 Passenger has died
Posted on 4/18/18 at 7:47 pm to Chucktown_Badger
Posted on 4/18/18 at 7:47 pm to Chucktown_Badger
I stand corrected then. ;)
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Posted on 4/18/18 at 7:49 pm to Tigeralum2008
Those pics are of a female Aggressor squadron pilot , with F-15’s in the background....I thought the pilot on the Southwest flight was a former F-18 naval aviator?
This post was edited on 4/18/18 at 7:51 pm
Posted on 4/18/18 at 7:55 pm to AUTimbo
Those are hornets behind her.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 7:55 pm to AUTimbo
Um, no lol... Those are most definitely not F-15s
Posted on 4/18/18 at 8:02 pm to cubsfan5150
My bad, just glanced at the pics.... saw the intakes and gear after your post. ;)
I’m guessing she was a Red Force pilot at Top Gun school, which is obviously logical in retrospect. LOL
Of course the only time I ever worked an 18 was when a Canadian bird took a lightning strike over the Gulf and I had to perform an xray inspection of the vert stabs.... lot of melted honeycomb to say the least. Haha
I’m guessing she was a Red Force pilot at Top Gun school, which is obviously logical in retrospect. LOL
Of course the only time I ever worked an 18 was when a Canadian bird took a lightning strike over the Gulf and I had to perform an xray inspection of the vert stabs.... lot of melted honeycomb to say the least. Haha
This post was edited on 4/18/18 at 8:06 pm
Posted on 4/18/18 at 8:10 pm to EA6B
Aloha Air.
There's a color photo from the side right after it landed. People are still in their seats along the damaged area. It's in one of the threads about the SWA incident. That must have been the longest 13 minutes of their lives.
The failure was a metal fatigue issue caused by excessive cycles of a short hop airline. There was corrosion involved too, I believe. The whole fleet was grounded and they found problems in other aircraft.
There's a color photo from the side right after it landed. People are still in their seats along the damaged area. It's in one of the threads about the SWA incident. That must have been the longest 13 minutes of their lives.
The failure was a metal fatigue issue caused by excessive cycles of a short hop airline. There was corrosion involved too, I believe. The whole fleet was grounded and they found problems in other aircraft.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 9:11 pm to White Roach
Have you been asked to sit in the row with the emergency exits?
Multiple flights I have been asked by flight staff to sit in that row. Stewardess often ask if I feel comfortable in an emergency to make sure the door is open. I am kind of beefy and wondered if the doors were hard to open in an actual emergency?
Multiple flights I have been asked by flight staff to sit in that row. Stewardess often ask if I feel comfortable in an emergency to make sure the door is open. I am kind of beefy and wondered if the doors were hard to open in an actual emergency?
Posted on 4/18/18 at 9:32 pm to Cheese Grits
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Cheese Grits
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I am kind of beefy
Checks out.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 9:44 pm to Cheese Grits
There’s a certification regulation that emergency exits can only be so heavy, the idea being any able bodied adult - male or female - should be able to open it. Can’t remember if it’s 40 or 70lbs, but that’s why they don’t let kids in exit rows.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 10:19 pm to Cheese Grits
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Have you been asked to sit in the row with the emergency exits?
Multiple flights I have been asked by flight staff to sit in that row. Stewardess often ask if I feel comfortable in an emergency to make sure the door is open. I am kind of beefy and wondered if the doors were hard to open in an actual emergency?
I'm 6'-5", so I like the extra legroom. I also like not have to worry and some moron or weakling not being able to get the door off in an expedient manner in a crisis.
A flight attendant always asks if you know you're in an emergency exit row and if are you willing to assist in an emergency. I'm sure it's an FAA requirement, just like the safety instruction lecture.
Once a flight attendant told me something like "That door is 42 lbs, will you be able to lift it in the event of an emergency?" I told her if you get up here fast enough in an emergency, not only can you watch me lift it, you'll get to see me fling like a frisbee as I head out of the exit.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 10:33 pm to Furbs311
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ut that’s why they don’t let kids in exit rows.
There used to be an age limit, too. Like 65, maybe 70.
My father, who was also tall, liked exit row seating. He had also ditched a B-29 in the Sea of Japan during his Air Force years and understood the benefit of not having 20 or 30 people in line ahead of you as the plane sinks or burns.
One time, when he was well over the age limit, he mentioned that he and my mother had flown in the exit row. Breaking his balls, I told him he was too old and over the age limit. He said, "The stewardess put me in the exit row. She must have thought I could handle it." I asked, "What about mom?" He said, "I sat by the window."
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