when I first heard this this morning it was...get this....when I my dog was listening to the radio. (leave it on for her during the day)
anyway, I remember them saying something like 10 fire trucks and 10 ambulances on scene at the time
22 fire trucks and 19 ambulances....that must of really put a strain on EMS although with just 8 patients alot of them would be released as they weren't needed.
22 fire trucks and 19 ambulances....that must of really put a strain on EMS although with just 8 patients alot of them would be released as they weren't needed.
22 trucks? Why so many? Isn't there 6 trucks at 13 and 2 at 27? That would have been a site to see.
22 trucks? Why so many? Isn't there 6 trucks at 13 and 2 at 27? That would have been a site to see.
Yeah 6 at 13 and 1 at 27,that leaves 15 from other halls.
This would include pumper trucks,aerials,emergency rescue,tankers,hazmat and a district chief.
I've heard about 4 different stories so far....at first it was a plane crash with 18 people killed, then it was turbulence with minor injuries, then it was the auto pilot and now life threatening injuries.
Kinda wondering which one is true.....especially since I fly out tomorrow morning and my g/f won't go anywhere near a plane if she knows someone was killed recently.
On Global at 11am they showed passengers being carried off on stretchers and said the worst injuries were spinal injuries. 9 were serious.
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"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
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I'm guessing they hit turbulence with a shear layer which dropped them and made them yaw or bank a bit. I believe if the turbulence is severe enough the autopilot will disengage itself, which might be the cause of the autopilot rumors. It would very unlikely and rare that the autopilot caused a severe enough descent rate to cause injuries. It could cause the plane to bank suddenly and that might cause injuries, but reports say they hit the ceiling, so that doesn't seem to be what happened.
Global just said there are "6 people with serious, potential life threatening injuries"
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
I have a couple of pilot friends who echo Fotze's sentiment that you need your seat belt on whenever possible. It all comes down to the fact that pockets of air can do just about anything to an aircraft regardless of pilot skill or plane design.
It would all hit the earth eventally, but so diluted and so spread out that it doesn't make a difference.
Don't be so sure about that. I imagine there's someone somewhere counting how many jet fuel hydrocarbon molecules accumulate in a seagull's body and how by doing such practice we're ruining precious eco-systems and if we must fly we should purchase jet fuel offsets offered by the same such person that monitors it in the first place. And of course by offset I don't mean projects that actually remove as much jet fuel from the air that are sent on average by one flight, but rather projects that show the possibility of one day in the far off future doing just that.
