Aiman

Unfortunately it seems that a reinforced roof would have done little to help in this accident, since the fuel strake was ripped open by the impact.

hey folks, sitting in the terminal at IAD (Dulles) waiting for my flight, and saw video on CNN airport headline news of what looks like this incident. i guess someone released a tape. sorry about being so brief, but im posting from my cellphone and thought i would update you all. Edit: i just checked and its apparently on cnn.com as well.

I have it on good authority that the captain wasn't in command of the first landing attempt, btw...

Alternatively, Marc... what if that video had ended differently, and we were unfortunate witness to a planeload of passengers and crew being turned into little red smears on the tarmac 'live on CNN'? Would you hold the same opinion of the pilot then? The point is... this was way too close a call, and could probably have been avoided.

Let's guess, for the sake of argument, that he was landing at EDDH in Hamburg, Germany. What would have posessed him to go for the runway with the strongest crosswind component when he could have chosen the other runway, which was almost 90 degrees different, and perfectly big enough to accomodate the jet? Was the crosswind 45deg to both runways, and still that strong? Safety of the passengers, first.. no? Time to divert? maybe. Another runway? maybe. Bottom line is, he probably could have handled it differently. Incedentally, my 747 was the last plane cleared to land at Narita that night before they closed the airport to all traffic. I would have thought no less of the pilot had he chosen a safe diversion even given the clearance to land. I'm sure it would have cost the airline less money than a stuffed #4 engine and a plane-full of whiter-than-ghost passengers, not to mention the inconvenience of having to wait for fire/rescue to clear us to be towed to gate.

Whatever the underlying reason for that pilots decision, it was the passengers and their families that would have paid the ultimate price. He and everyone else on that aircraft came dangerously close to eating it. I would have punched his lights out after we landed, if I were a passenger on that plane. I was in a very similar incident (B747-400 engine strike in a monsoon) at Tokyo Narita a few years back, and I almost had a heart attack.

Airbus A380, Boeing 7E7 (Dreamliner)? Those aircraft both use composites extensively throughout the airframe. Mind you, they aren't the all-composite-wonder that the Starship was, but still, the FAA seems to have taken no major issues with them (yet).

My wishes are with them all.

oh dear. . .

I say HUD, since we are trying to construct one for our wonderful aircraft(s). Dont mind me. I have had about 10 too many tonight. No flying for me for 72 hours. At least. Current score.... Absinthe: 4 Me: 0

I have some stuff from the Czech republic that is 100mg/l Thujone content. Thats the strongest made. It's called "Absinthe, King of Spirits Gold". Some moron importer says they can get it shipped to you here at near $200/ bottle, but don't ever expect to see it if you order it. Customs will snatch it. I nearly ran afoul of the CBP bringing it into the country, but you are more than welcome to a shot. Please be sure to properly anise it, it is HORRIBLY bitter. But trust me. it (one shot) WILL F*CK YOU UP.

Lol Jon.. I saw that years ago when it first came out. Hilarious piece of work. Camel? What? have you read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" ? It goes over, in painstaking detail the differences, good and bad, between open and closed source.

Arguably, it can be quite secure. How many times have you had someone 'check over' your work (whether it be coding, fiberglass layups, electrical wiring, or balancing your checkbook...). having another perspective, another set of eyes, can provide tremendous insight, and can often find something that you may have inadvertently looked over. "QA testing" as they call it in the software world can only catch so much.

In re: Linux & Viruses becoming a target... Microsoft is making moves to compartmentalize the OS like linux has, where you MUST escalate privileges in order to do things like install executables, etc. It's a step in the right direction, but they are nowhere near where they need to be. Microsoft is a target because they are SO easy to maliciously code against. If you want to take that to the next level: Compare Apache vs IIS. Apache is by far the de-facto standard for webservers on the internet, and, regardless of whatever MS sponsored marketing hype tells you, holds dominant market share over IIS. using your reasoning, exploits against apache should be a dime a dozen. Are there? um, not last time I checked. Proof, apache vs IIS: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html scroll about 1/2 way down. This is where linux (and to a MUCH lesser extent, Apple's OSX) has a significant lead. In order to make system changes, install binaries to protected locations (other than in your own /home/$user/bin/) and make changes to system configuration, you MUST be the root user. Granular premissions settings on system files, within /etc/ and other locations, completely prevent unathorized alteration. This is a concept that many M$ users can't grasp. Another problem with MS OS's is the lack of the idea of protected system memory. Many programs can (are allowed to) access blocks of memory. This leaves the system vulnerable to remote exploitation, such as buffer overflows and compromise by a malicious local user (or local program). Remember, Windows was never built from the ground up to be a NETWORK operating system. As networks grew and the demand for interoperability increased, microsoft released their completely busticated TCP/IP stack, and the marginally stable OS that stood behind it. In addition, the security model was 'hacked' from a weak local one, to an even weaker network one. Where does apple fit into all of this? Well, darwin (Mac OS X) is so bastardized by apple that it barely resembles the UNIX platform that it was based on. Besides, I personally think Jobs is a greedy prick, so my opinion is biased there. My windows vs linux comparison comes from having over 10 years of experience in the IT field, as an administrator of both OS'es in enterprise environments. Trust me, I'll take linux over windows anyday, but darn.. Windows sure can pay the bills sometimes, cause it needs a lot of babysitting.

I'm the guy who keeps coming up in your logs/browser stats as having "Linux 2.6" as an OS. I'm running a fully up to date version of openSuSE Linux 10.3, with iptables firewall (which is also sitting behind my Juniper ScreenOS SSG box here at home). I doubt that I'll be getting a virus, spyware/adware/etc, ever.

The belts that power the roots superchargers that sit atop modern top fuel dragsters carry over 150hp of power to the blower pulleys without any problem at all. Motorcycle drive belts have to hold about 75hp for thousands of miles.. Other belts used in other purposes are capable of hoding many hundreds of hp, however, you have to start factoring in the losses through the belt because of the stiffness of a belt designed to reliably hold such high HP.

Sounds like you have Windows Vista. I'm TRULY sorry for your loss. Vista means: Virus Infections Spyware Trojans Adware

try typing this in the command line: ipconfig /flushdns

DING! You got exactly the reason why all the RX-7 (and to a much more limited extent, some RX-8 folks) performance guys keep churning through engines. Boost + Rotary = Bad. Period. I actually drive a Mazda now myself, and when I was evaluating what car I wanted for RELIABLE high performance, I test drove the RX8 and Speed6 and chose the Speed6 over it, because I knew that I could turn up the boost and wring more power, more reliably, from a piston engine. The car is already in the low 13's in the 1/4 mile... 12's this summer hopefully. And yeah.. it's a big fat heavy sedan. heh.

Where can i get me a set of these...

If you want to IM me, I'd be happy to walk you through some more troubleshooting steps.

Mine pooped out at the intelenet core router as well, however, that just means that this box doesn't forward ICMP requests. It's not a DNS problem, it's a routing problem. Incedentally, you are physically MUCH closer to aircraft spruce's servers than I am. It took me 23 hops to reach the same router yours died at! Then again, I'm on the right coast.

I remember someone at RR this last year dropping it in nice and hard, and deforming their gear, I think.

No issues here. Pings, traces and DNS'es just fine. And their webserver service is up.

I see the double meaning about carrying baggage. Really, don't lose hope. I am speaking from experience, I did, and It's hard to stop regretting.