This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0065_01C5985D.4A35AFA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I believe the BA 747 continued on 3 engines not 2. Mark -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Burris Sent: August 3, 2005 6:21 PM To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Air France Crash - Toronto Pearson International - YYZ Bryant / All: Good discussion threads. If I may borrow from one of them titled 'Congratulations Air France Crew,' I had heard one woman say that the crew 'didn't seem to know what they were doing.' And that a crew member tried to keep everyone calm, by saying that 'the situation was under control,' when it became clear to the passengers that it wasn't. I guess opinions will differ as there were many passengers with many different vantage points. When I heard about the incident, I thought 'Wow! The pilots did a heck of a job! Trying to control a flying tin-can (Sorry. Just aged vernacular here. No insult intended.) packed-full of people moving at a high speed with winds from a storm-front close by, deserves heroism. But then again, one might question why they chose to land during those conditions? Like the BA incident earlier this year, when they chose to continue flying their B-747 across the Atlantic on two engines with the idea maybe, to stick to a schedule, the Air France crew might have been under similar pressure to complete the trip on time, versus landing in, Montreal or Chicago, or Halifax and then continue on when the weather cleared. I haven't heard anything on the news this evening, but what has the airline said? The only talking heads appear to be the airport media and the local / national news folks? The black boxes have been found. That is on Yahoo! at the moment. This is an interesting one. Like yesterday's story of 1800 U.S. soldiers dead in Iraq since the war started, the public has questioned the decision of the US and Great Britain going into this particular war. Perhaps the world aviation community might question the Air France pilots' decision to land at Toronto at that particular moment in time? We'll have to wait and see. --- Mike Burris Cambridge, Mass --- Bryant Petitt <skyshirts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ,,,Check out this a.net thread for some pretty dramatic pix by a > Passenger.... > > http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/2252963/ > > Bryant Petitt > Cumming, GA > > --- Michael Burris <yyz_02140@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > AIRLINE: > > > > > > Here's another link to today's crash at Toronto. > > > > Mike Burris > > Cambridge, Mass > > > > > > > http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=2927 > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > ------=_NextPart_000_0065_01C5985D.4A35AFA0 Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s" MIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAqCAMIACAQExCzAJBgUrDgMCGgUAMIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAQAAoIIIyTCCAlEw 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