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How could it be bound for Las Vegas and flying in from Los Angeles at the same time, but landing in Gatwick UK? Or was the LA flight being referred to in the previous paragraph, regarding the 1997 landing gear problem?
What a poorly written article.
Marc
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I'm guessing it was flying from LA to LV and got seriously lost en route? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Pro tip: the Airliners.net forums are great when these sort of incidents happen.
I just lurk obviously (I don't want to bother them with my ignorance) but those guys really know their stuff, way more informative than the news.
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I have a little mantra I always pass to the cockpit crew upon debarking a flight:
A Good landing is one you can walk away from, but a great landing is one where you can use the plane again.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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And then there is an excellent landing.
I was on a trip to Miami for a business meeting. The meeting ended on Friday, so the wife and I decided to see Disney World on Saturday. We booked a flight for early in the morning (6 AM takeoff) and arrived at Orlando about 6:30 AM. It was a beautiful, calm, cool day, with no weather problems. The pilot "greased it in" and you could not tell exactly when the wheels touched the runway, it was that smooth. At the gate, absolutely no one left their seat until the pilot opened the cockpit door, then he got a "Standing O" from all of the passengers.
I have had a few "good" landings (to use you definition) as well - a student pilot pranging in a B52 and bouncing 5 times down the runway before he got it under control. Thank you very, very much, Boeing, for such a beautiful and safe aircraft that can take such punishment. To the student pilot's credit, the subsequent touch and go was very good, but that was partly because of what the student navigator said after the first touch and go. The navigator was responsible for logging in all touch and gos and reporting the total to the pilots after each touch and go, so, as we climbed back up for the next landing, he reported "5". The whole crew, students and instructors, broke out in laughter. That broke the ice.
Dave.
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Yes, things have indeed improved since autopilots took over landing the birds.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My worst was landing in Gib.
On approach, the (RN) pilot off-handedly announced "We've got a bit of a crosswind".
"A bit!" It felt like the plane was in a Gerry Anderson show, the way it was bouncing around in the air. God only knows how he got it on the deck.
There wasn't a dry barf-bag in the house.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Likewise, years ago, the "official" term used for a catastrophic failure of a rotor in an ultracentrifuge (think: 10-15 kg of titanium spinning at 100 kRPM in a vacuum, generating about 800 kG's of acceleration):
Spontaneous rotor disassembly
It almost sounds pleasant. 
This explosion (yes, that's what it is ... conservation of angular momentum!) is contained by a ring of 6cm thick armor steel!
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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i qm developing multiDB developer in this i buid query builder and query editor.Based on query builder in that tables i have to generate sql query.but i am struggling inner joins how to build it.
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The inner joins are innocent!
Free the struggling inner joins!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Free the struggling inner joins!
The inner joins struggle to get out but one can only free their inner joins by getting in touch with their inner joins.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Struggling, as well as innocent? Are you sure?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I wonder if lounge means something else in Hindi non-English language? [edited to avoid offending anyone] Sorry about that!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
modified 29-Dec-14 8:49am.
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Well, "member" can mean something else in English... 
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Message Closed
modified 30-Dec-14 3:57am.
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Um.
Google disagrees with you...
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Ok, I lied - so sue me...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It's the Lounge Police that'll "sue you" for using language like that, I suspect.
I'd edit your message, if I was you - before the abuse votes start. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah, well - I'm so used to people not being able to take a joke. You know I never write anything serious... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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We can take a joke, but there is a time and place, and the Lounge is not the place for obscenities.
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Maybe next year! 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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kmoorevs wrote: I wonder if lounge means something else in Hindi?
I believe it's an abbreviation for "Post your unclear and poorly explained programming questions here, PLEASE!" 
Just kidding - no offense intended...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 29-Dec-14 8:12am.
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Join us not for building answers in the lounge, seek outer query.
Marc
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Put a ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif) in your life...
Now seriously: you should not put anything related to "work" into the lounge... this is only to remove stress, have casual talks...
Look under the wide orange stripe on top and search for "quick answers" or "discussions" where you can ask specific programming (or related) issues.
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