Sent this morning by my friend Tom, who said, “It was a hard landing.”
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I had my family’s entire return itinerary from Logan to Sea-Tac rearranged for us unexpectedly at the e-Ticket kiosk last week. When we questioned why our original flight out of Boston was scrubbed off the board, the harried ticket agent confided that “The plane never landed” and then made a seriously disturbing facial expression. I’m still morbidly curious what that was all about…
Obviously, it didn’t crash, Peter, or I think we would have heard about it by now. Next time you’re in the United terminal at Logan, check out Jerry Remy’s restaurant on the other side of the terminal – good stuff (and some cute women working there too).
Hard landing > Crash landing
I had a hard landing about two weeks ago into Seatac. Totally dull night flight, about 10pm, until we were mayyyyybe 40-50 feet off the ground, then WHOOSH, and a hell of a cross wind. We dropped it felt like 1/8th the distance and landed with an audible bang. In reality, we probably dropped like 6 inches and the pilot probably had to barely compensate a degree or two, but damn. Always fun.
what would it look and feel like to die at 400mph head on in one of those things? anything?
that said they make those planes pretty damn tuff
Hard Landing is the name of my future gay bar.
@5 i’m not sure you’d even have the time to know that something was wrong (unless of course you were at 35,000 feet and could hear the engines break and feel the wings fall off as you spiraled to the ground). if it was an unexpected impact, such as a hit&skip landing, it’d all be too fast to know what was going on. i think you’d just be there one second, gone the next.
It ain’t hard unless it blows tyres.