Several dubious dates in the captions, starting with the very first shot.

(Written on 2017年 02月 04日)(Permalink)

The most impressive part for me was when I ran outside and saw a 3000 foot long trail of burning jet fuel on the runway, leading to the airplane, whose entire left wing was ablaze. I've been in aviation my entire life, and I've never seen anything like it. The pilots went out the copilot's window on a rope, and they're OK. Not my usual day at work at FLL. Strong crosswind out of the northeast, and some guys I know were watching as it happened. They said it hit pretty hard on the left main first.

(Written on 2016年 10月 29日)(Permalink)

I personally prefer some gray hair on Airline Captains.

(Written on 2016年 09月 29日)(Permalink)

What happened to "train like you fight?" Doesn't look like anybody's in a hurry here.

(Written on 2016年 09月 20日)(Permalink)

I had almost the same thing happen to me as a kid, flying with my family on a Mexicana 727-100, taking off out of MEX. We went barreling down the runway, rotated, lifted off, and then touched back down, rolled some more, and then finally lifted off for good. I have never, before or since, seen my Dad so angry. At the time, he was a 727 Captain for United, and I swear, I thought for a minute he was going to storm the cockpit, slap the crap out of the Captain, and take over the controls. To keep him from turning over in his grave, I stay away from Mexicana.

(Written on 2016年 08月 26日)(Permalink)

This is the same guy who said he wanted this route just to rub salt in Delta's wounds. Tough noogies, Akbar.

(Written on 2016年 06月 06日)(Permalink)

If you had to put one in the North Atlantic in the winter, you might as well nose it over and go straight in, because nobody is going to survive very long, raft or not.

(Written on 2016年 05月 09日)(Permalink)

Does the 737-800 actually hold 8 hours of fuel?

(Written on 2016年 04月 10日)(Permalink)

Who cares whether the computer said it could go from there or not? Why the hell would an Airline Captain make an intersection takeoff? Especially on a long-haul flight carrying a bunch of fuel? The shaking of the earth that night was from the thousands of past Airline Captains, my Dad included, turning over in their graves.

(Written on 2016年 03月 04日)(Permalink)

Let's see, how can we cut corners even more, and make more customers swear they'll never fly us again?

(Written on 2016年 02月 28日)(Permalink)