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dmccormack

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Unbelievable -- time for the GMA interview with the crew!!

Plane lands safely at Du Bois after light malfunction
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
By Emily Gibb, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A commuter plane en route to Cleveland this morning returned to the Du Bois Regional Airport after experiencing trouble with the landing gear light.
The landing gear light of the Continental Airlines plane failed to turn on, said Trudy Garvey, executive assistant of the airport.
Airport officials are calling it a non-event after the plane landed safely.
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From: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10348/1110678-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml#ixzz186C9gng8
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ScottM said:
Wow those people are damned lucky to be alive. Do you think they got Rex Kramer and Joe Patroni on the radio to talk them down?
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I don't know but wow... just wow. Just IMAGINE what could have happened!!

TRANSCRIPT from WDUB News Action Five Action Storm Tracker Doppler Team:

JH: Let's go live to Barbara Ponzischeme live at the Dubois Airport:

BP: Max, Jen, this was a close one
(telephotoshot of a/c taxiing in guided by fire truck)


(closein of BP)
BP: Now, officials tell me that the airplane had TWO lights on board, but one malfunctioned in flight. Now, the FAA has not yet made a statement -- we'll be standing by at the Press Conference scheduled for 10:53 Eastern -- but Bill Bucktooth, local airport maintenance Chief is here with me now...

(pan to B and guest)

BP: Bill, you were here when the ill-fated flight returned?

BB: Yeah, I was over on the snow dozer when I heard on the radio that a plane was coming back...

BP: Now, for our audience, can you explain what a snowdozer is?

BB: Sure .. it's a tractor with ...
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Ok, that's all I can stand.... :rolleyes2:
 
i have a friend who flies out of DuBois, I wonder if it was her who expertly handled this serious emergency
 
wasn't her, i guess someone else gets the glory
 
Maybe that pilot will get a drink named after him/her, like Sully (2 shots of grey goose, and a splash of water).
 
Matthew said:
Maybe that pilot will get a drink named after him/her, like Sully (2 shots of grey goose, and a splash of water).
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For the magnitude and daring that this flight consisted of the only cocktail that I think would even come close would be:

1 pt ginger ale
splash of maraschino cherry juice
1 maraschino cherry.
 
ScottM said:
For the magnitude and daring that this flight consisted of the only cocktail that I think would even come close would be:

1 pt ginger ale
splash of maraschino cherry juice
1 maraschino cherry.
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heh..


Yeah - wait until they are all sitting around in the old-pilot's home. "You think YOU had it bad, wait until you hear this!"
 
Has Congress come up with a plan to keep this from happening again?

Perhaps a seven light redundant system, with mandatory 150 hour pilot training on how to tell if the lights are ON or OFF?
 
What I'm trying to figure out is how they were able to survive without Sully at the controls?
 
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