Co-pilot gets sick, stewardess helps land airplane

The Starmaker wrote:
airplanes...all they do is CRASH!

Usenet cross-posters ... all they do is TROLL!

Who knows how many airplanes crash a year..thousands.

The NTSB knows:
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Stats.htm

A total of 534 aviation fatalities in 2009 in the U.S.

By comparison, allegedly 450 deaths per year occurred in the U.S. due to
people falling out of bed:

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/mo...-involving-bed
Possible supporting stats he
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/nursing.htm

Another perspective: there were a total of 366 weather-caused deaths in
the U.S.:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats/sum09.pdf
General NOAA weather hazard stats page:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml

BOTTOM LINE:
You ain't safe in bed or outdoors - so may as well have some fun flying!

On Jul 3, 10:12*am, Jim Logajan wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
airplanes...all they do is CRASH!

Usenet cross-posters ... all they do is TROLL!

Who knows how many airplanes crash a year..thousands.

The NTSB knows:http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Stats.htm

A total of 534 aviation fatalities in 2009 in the U.S.

By comparison, allegedly 450 deaths per year occurred in the U.S. due to
people falling out of bed:

I'd hate to know what your road fatality figures are yet the trolling
one (if old enough) must drive.

george wrote:

On Jul 3, 10:12 am, Jim Logajan wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
airplanes...all they do is CRASH!

Usenet cross-posters ... all they do is TROLL!

Who knows how many airplanes crash a year..thousands.

The NTSB knows:http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Stats.htm

A total of 534 aviation fatalities in 2009 in the U.S.

By comparison, allegedly 450 deaths per year occurred in the U.S. due to
people falling out of bed:

I'd hate to know what your road fatality figures are yet the trolling
one (if old enough) must drive.

There are a lot more cars on the ground than planes in the air...


If I run out of gasoline, or my car..stalls, I'm not going to crash into
the ground!

The Starmaker wrote:
If I run out of gasoline, or my car..stalls, I'm not going to crash
into the ground!

Ha - I've flown aircraft that had no gasoline or other fuel and never
crashed into the ground!

(I was piloting a glider....)

Jim Logajan wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:
If I run out of gasoline, or my car..stalls, I'm not going to crash
into the ground!

Ha - I've flown aircraft that had no gasoline or other fuel and never
crashed into the ground!

(I was piloting a glider....)

That doesn't mean that gliders don't crash...

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q...ed=0CDcQsAQwBQ

The Starmaker wrote:

Jim Logajan wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:
If I run out of gasoline, or my car..stalls, I'm not going to crash
into the ground!

Ha - I've flown aircraft that had no gasoline or other fuel and never
crashed into the ground!

(I was piloting a glider....)

That doesn't mean that gliders don't crash...

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q...ed=0CDcQsAQwBQ

two die in glider...
http://media.apnonline.com.au/img/ne...20908_t312.jpg


probably ran out of ...air?

It's not gliding, ...it's trying to crash.

On Jul 3, 11:22*am, The Starmaker wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:

Jim Logajan wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:
If I run out of gasoline, or my car..stalls, I'm not going to crash
into the ground!

Ha - I've flown aircraft that had no gasoline or other fuel and never
crashed into the ground!

(I was piloting a glider....)

That doesn't mean that gliders don't crash...

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q...ech=13ø=g3EuTJ...

two die in glider...http://media.apnonline.com.au/img/ne...r_crash_465x28...

probably ran out of ...air?

It's not gliding, ...it's trying to crash.

In the real world we dont use cotton wool.
There are dangers in anything worth doing.
And flying is certainly something well worth doing !.

On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:56:03 -0500, Jim Logajan
wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:
If I run out of gasoline, or my car..stalls, I'm not going to crash
into the ground!

Ha - I've flown aircraft that had no gasoline or other fuel and never
crashed into the ground!

(I was piloting a glider....)

Standard ploy by the examiner when you are taking the flight test
is to cut the throttle to idling (to simulate loss of engine) and
to say "Emergency". The testee has to make a simulated emergency
landing by quickly picking out a suitable place to set the plane
down, perhaps a farm field or dirt road, and then land the plane.
However, the landing is done in the air 500 feet above the
potential landing site.

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* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *

In rec.aviation.piloting george wrote:
On Jul 3, 10:12Â*am, Jim Logajan wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
airplanes...all they do is CRASH!

Usenet cross-posters ... all they do is TROLL!

Who knows how many airplanes crash a year..thousands.

The NTSB knows:http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Stats.htm

A total of 534 aviation fatalities in 2009 in the U.S.

By comparison, allegedly 450 deaths per year occurred in the U.S. due to
people falling out of bed:

I'd hate to know what your road fatality figures are yet the trolling
one (if old enough) must drive.

That would require a job in order to pay for the car, gas, and insurance.


--
Jim Pennino

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Jim Logajan wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:
airplanes...all they do is CRASH!

Usenet cross-posters ... all they do is TROLL!

Who knows how many airplanes crash a year..thousands.

The NTSB knows:
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Stats.htm

A total of 534 aviation fatalities in 2009 in the U.S.

By comparison, allegedly 450 deaths per year occurred in the U.S. due to
people falling out of bed:


Are you comparing how many people are *in* bed with how many planes there are in the air?

There are not 300 million airplanes in the sky...


Planes crash because....they run out of whatever keeps them up in the air...




The Starmaker


You put a washing machine in the air...you better have enough quaters to keep it flying.