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Air France Flight 358, a flight from Paris, France to Toronto, another miracle - Everyone Survived.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_358

There must be a God!!

Adrian, you are so right.

Larry King needs to hang it up. I remember watching an interview with him and Michael Moore a few months ago. He asked Michael why he was in Traverse City Michigan, Michael answered, "Because that is where I live Larry". My wife and I fell off the couch laughing.

But these journalist / reporters do it to them selves too. Last night Wolfe on CNN asked a reporter "why don't they put screens in front of the rotating fan blades on jet engines to stop birds from getting in there". Like the reporter has any idea how to answer that!

pn

No miracle, just a pretty good pilot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

Gimli's a 90 minute drive north. I've flown up there with a buddy. The aircraft wreckage rotting beside the runway is a fun touch for those of us who are less than comfortable with powered flight.

Bren R.

I remember seen a few years ago on dateline or 60 minutes the story of Flight 236 of Air Transat. A Canadian charter airline that safely made an emergency landing in the Azores after it ran out of fuel. Crazy story, the pilot was heralded as a hero at first but then found responsible for making the error of not dbl-checking the amt of fuel they were carrying.

Bren the wife and I used to fly into a somewhat smallish (2300ft) island runway that spanned the entire length of the island it was on (Cedar Key, FL) ... I remember being a little unnerved a time or two while landing or taking off over the top of an airplane that either ran too long or too short and into the water off either end of the runways.

Freeport Intl. (Bahamas) used to bulldoze the wrecks into the woods at the ends of their runway and leave them there ... I always thought that was funny.

You'd think they'd clear that stuff away for scrap, especially at small civvie airports. Luckily we had a 30 minute hold while the skydiving club did a drop over the airport so I could chain smoke half a dozen cigarettes before getting into the flying snowmobile. (Stock image, not that one I was in, as you can tell by the tail markings)

Bren R.

Jet trivia. Turns out there is a button the pilot can push to turn the jet into a raft. I caught that on the news on the way into work today.

Think Jetsons.

The StThomas airport have a mountain right at the end of the runway. You could see the prop airplanes that have crashed on the mountain left there for years.
It was fun flying there on a A300s. Take-offs were like a rollercoaster ride ... pretty hard acceleration and a quick hard left bank to avoid the mountain ... and the view, wow. It wasn't unusual to find passengers that as a joke would raise their arms like on a rollercoaster during take-offs there,,, good times

You know, I've been thinking about that "grills over the intakes thing," and I think I've figured out why there aren't--correct me if I'm wrong, those who actually know what they're talking about. In any case, at 400 MPH, I'm thinking that the grills would do no good--they'd get smashed straight into the engine, and might in fact do even more damage. Right?