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Jet extreme turns over SJ downtown approach to SJC?
A few minutes before PDT Fri 2006-09-29T20:00-0700 I was in San Jose
coming up US-Ca-I-280 from US-101 towards 7th St and Ca-87 exits, and saw a large airplane (commercial passenger airline sized, although could have been fedex?) take a hard turn (I am pretty sure a turn to the right), somewhere between 50 and 70 degrees away from horizontal, wings looking from my angle close to buildings, then level out within a second or two, then a few seconds later, a hard turn in the opposite direction about same angle from horizontal, also leveling out within a second or two again, and both times very close to the buildings. After the second turn, I couldn't see it any more since it was shrouded by ground features, when I was approaching US-Ca-I-280 N - Ca-87 N exit lane, nor did I see it later as I entered Ca-87 exit ramp. It was so strange that I drove to the airport to see if anything happened. Everything seemed normal; I didn't see any smoke, fires on the way by the freeway or at the airport when I got there, crazy acting people, equipment on the airstrip, etc.. Because of nazi driving and parking rules in the airport, I couldn't pick a random person for a conversation to ask stuff about it. It was extremely busy at the airport at that time. Why would a plane do such a maneuver? What is the experience of those on the plane? How safe is such a maneuver? Sunday night (2006-10-01) at 20:15, I saw a similar plane come into the SJC airport landing approach queue at a sharp angle, with a similar type of flying behavior to the one I saw Friday. This time it was somewhere between Willow Glen and I-280 when it came in to its slot. I didn't see it after that. |
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