There are three major airports within a few miles from lower
Manhattan, Newark, JFK and Laguardia. Most aircraft accidents occur
during landings and takeoffs and include both pilot error and
equipment failures and sometimes both. With the balls to the wall
looking for altitude.
Damn! Landing and looking for altitude. Whatta concept???
The guy who hit the Empire State Building was
executing extreme evasive maneuvers with a high-performance military
A/C which was far more agile than any jet airliner but he hit it
anyway and almost dead center at that.
The Empire State Building sure move around a lot.
As you well know there have
been situations in which airliners have become completely
uncontrollable, e.g., 737 rudder lockups. You're a pilot too, connect
the dots.
He ate the Dots. Right after he ate the jujubees and buttered popcorn.
The issue "under discussion" here is whether one of the towers might
not have come down if it's designers had used their heads when they
picked a wayward 707 as the model for a A/C collision with a tower and
factored in the fact that 707's carry huge amounts of JP. Which they
apparently didn't do. That's *all* there is to my "agenda". But as
usual around here the "technical experts" . . yadda, yadda . . .
73
Steve, K4YZ
w3rv
Yeh. Hmmm? Nothing like siding with the terrs.
Children should be seen but not heard. Now go to your room.
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