Marty Shapiro wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote in
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Marty Shapiro wrote in
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D Ramapriya wrote in
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On Mar 4, 1:04 am, Jim Logajan wrote:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...538926,00.html

Scroll to the bottom for an editor's note: "An earlier version of
this story contained information from German wire service DPA that
listed the strength of storm winds near the airport at 250
kilometers-per-hour (155 miles per hour)."


Jim, it was the plane that was traveling @ 155 mph

Ramapriya


On the local CBS news tonight (Channel 5, San Francisco) they stated
the winds were 150 miles per hour.

They weren't. If they had been, the A320 would have climbed away
vetically. I was inthe area at the time, BTW, and it was blowing
about 50 in the gusts.


Bertie

Accuracy from a news report regarding aviation -- no way! Not only
did they say it was a 150 MPH crosswind, they also stated that both
wings hit the runway.

It looks like they did, actually. Looks like he got them both in turn if
you watch carefully. There's a stil shot out there of the left most
definitely on the ground and if you look at the video the right seems to
be touching as he aborts as well. Could be that the right is just
raising a little wake in the water, though.


Bertie