... <celsior.mcdaddy@gmail.com> wrote: > Acutally, landing on a golf course was a ...2 trees if possible to take the > wings off, pissess of the ATSB and ... statistics show, 100%% survivability rate with forced > landings, no matter how bad the airframe ends up BrrrrrT!!!! landing on a golf course is the ... a pilot in need of a landing spot. Absolute garbage, but still, in ...

Sounds like this guy had a fair bit of "luck" on his side, if a forced landing due to engine trouble can be called "lucky". In one of the photos of the scene there were power lines. Not sure of what direction that they run in compared to his landing but at least he didn't hit them, I s'pose. -- Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.

...people here endorsing such nonsense. It sounds like the pilot actually ballsed up the approach entirely and only landed on the road because he fell short of the golf course, and I seriously suspect he intended to detach the ‘fully loaded’ wings. Sounds like, to me, an uneducated reader of newspapers and newsgroups, that the guy put it down whereever ...

... with potential problems and teaching such a sequence constitutes serious negligence!! .... ItÂ’s probably best sticking to the procedure that doesnÂ’t involve intentionally crashing the aircraft. Agreed. Breaking the wings off an aircraft has got to rank as one of the top 10 aviation myths of all time. It's one of those silly ideas that filters down through the ranks of instructors ...

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:29:03 +1000, Ned <nednot@aioe.org> wrote: snip So I'd wager they were perhaps caught flatfooted yet again at Pearson and Montreal? I recall one Boxing Day long ago waiting on the taxiway at the then Dorval for snow clearing at the terminal area for what seemed almost as long as it had taken to fly the Atlantic from Heathrow. They'd been caught quite ...

Gordon Beaman wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:17:49 +1000, Ned <nednot@aioe.org> wrote: But I guess you'd likely not be aware from PEI Gord that school is out for summer recess downunder, and the kiddies and wannabe pilot pretenders are obviously on their keyboards. Cheers Ned Quite so Ned...not a lot of rec flying here just now...we're in the middle on a...

"Rob Ford" <nospam@usenet.fake> wrote in message news:fk0hrr$vkm$1@aioe.org... Nick O'Tyme wrote: The technique is what I and, it sounds like, many others were taught. So you know better do you! It's dangerous to believe anything in aviation just because you're told it's true. I challenge you to find one [legitimate] online source that endorses the sequence you'...

Nick O'Tyme wrote: The technique is what I and, it sounds like, many others were taught. So you know better do you! It's dangerous to believe anything in aviation just because you're told it's true. I challenge you to find one [legitimate] online source that endorses the sequence you're making reference to. -- Posted at www.Usenet.com.au