Here's something you might be interested in.
When Sully landed that plane in the Hudson River, I figured we had our pilot hero for the next 10 years. I didn't think there'd be another one so soon.
But all over the news on the radio yesterday, I heard about a pilot dying during a flight. That basically meant everyone in the plane was going to die.
Now, I don't remember ANY of the details, but it was probably a smaller plane of some kind. And, it turns out one of the passengers had had a few lessons or something along those lines.
He got into the drivers seat, and was talked down from air traffic control. And everyone survived.
Can you imagine how nervous that kid must've been? He's either going to be a hero, or he's going to watch as the ground smashes up his windshield. And he gets the job done.
On other news happening in the skies -- yet another idiot parachutter died.
He was a cop in his mid-50s, and his shoot didn't open in time. When it finally did, he was to close to the ground.
I've said before, if you're someone that jumps out of planes, I don't want to hear about how you're an adrenline junkie, or any of that crap. You waste plane fuel and time, on a dangerous hobby.
I think my girlfriend once told me that more people die in hot air balloons. Oh wait...maybe she said more people die in balloons than in airplanes. Either way, the point is, at least going in a hot air balloon makes more sense to me.
It's hard to have sympathy for a 50-year-old dude that, on his day off, instead of spending it with his family, walking his dog, or doing a hobby like photography or stamp collecting...he chooses to jump out of a plane.
When Sully landed that plane in the Hudson River, I figured we had our pilot hero for the next 10 years. I didn't think there'd be another one so soon.
But all over the news on the radio yesterday, I heard about a pilot dying during a flight. That basically meant everyone in the plane was going to die.
Now, I don't remember ANY of the details, but it was probably a smaller plane of some kind. And, it turns out one of the passengers had had a few lessons or something along those lines.
He got into the drivers seat, and was talked down from air traffic control. And everyone survived.
Can you imagine how nervous that kid must've been? He's either going to be a hero, or he's going to watch as the ground smashes up his windshield. And he gets the job done.
On other news happening in the skies -- yet another idiot parachutter died.
He was a cop in his mid-50s, and his shoot didn't open in time. When it finally did, he was to close to the ground.
I've said before, if you're someone that jumps out of planes, I don't want to hear about how you're an adrenline junkie, or any of that crap. You waste plane fuel and time, on a dangerous hobby.
I think my girlfriend once told me that more people die in hot air balloons. Oh wait...maybe she said more people die in balloons than in airplanes. Either way, the point is, at least going in a hot air balloon makes more sense to me.
It's hard to have sympathy for a 50-year-old dude that, on his day off, instead of spending it with his family, walking his dog, or doing a hobby like photography or stamp collecting...he chooses to jump out of a plane.