"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"Peter Dohm" wrote in
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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D Ramapriya wrote in
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On Jan 18, 5:11 pm, Thomas Borchert
wrote:
D,

But this wasn't a normal landing.
The 777 was reportedly circa 500 ft
when the pilot noticed that the engine wasn't responding to
greater power.

Reported by whom? How on earth would you know? Have you thought to
ask yourself why professional accident investigations tend to take
months, even years? We know exactly nothing about what you claim to
be fact. The AIB will issue an inital report in 48 hours. That will
be our first clue. An "airport worker talked to the pilot..."? Bah,
humbug!

My Q is that once it was known that power was off,

WE DO NOT KNOW THAT!


Sky News reported that as information it had from the Captain
himself.



Sky News is almost as full of **** as Fox.

Well it would be since it's owned by the same person.

Let me guess, they made it "Breaking news" for about 12 hours, right?



Bertie

At least that long!

Yesterday morning, this discussion thread was already running; and, at
dinner time, at least one of the "all news" television channels was
still running the same crap over and over as a "developing story."


I get to see it all the time in Europe. Often it's the only english
language channel. That and CNN.If I'm stuck in my hotel room ( because I
have no money and am afraid of getting picked up for vagrancy) i get to
see hurricanes inch themselves across the carribean hourly...

Bertie


Fortunately for me, I rarely have to watch TV, except for a little ESPN--and
that mostly while I am on a treadmill. However, yesterday I took the day to
drive to the LSA Expo at Sebring--which is less than 150 miles away. On the
way back, I decided that it was time to have a dinner of fried catfish
(about once every 5 to 10 years is about right and it had been about that
long) and the TV was playing in the restaurant. BTW, the catfish was very
good and was the best that I can recall.

For the most part, the LSAs are not quite ready for me, since I am 6'1" and
don't like to be squished or to have my view blocked. But, that's OK since
my budget isn't ready for them and I don't have any medical issues.
However, the intesting thing the I learned was that, at least in the case of
low wing aircraft, the ones that make the most use of carbon fiber have
about a 100 pound usefull load advantage over the ones that don't. In the
case of the LSAs, that works out to a 20 to 25% advantage in usefull load
and up to 40% in pay load--and those numbers may carry over to a lot of
standard category aircraft as well. That's huge!

Peter