Finally got to go to Yankee Stadium, but thought I was dying on the way home

The pilot say anything? Flight attendants? I've been on a plane that lost an engine in the middle of a flight and had to put down and that was not a happy group of travelers for the 10 minutes it took for us to put 'er down in Louisville. This was surely worse than that.

 

Glad to hear you're OK.

Airplanes really, really suck.

 

http://offthebroiler.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/a-new-york-egg-cream-primer/

 

Isn't it kind of late to be calling it an "emergency" after the plane has crashed?

 

The pilot told us that they had to shut down the engine and would be landing at Kennedy -- but it was "not an emergency." Bull crap.

 

I gotta tell you, I'm not sure about that. But I'll try (almost) anything once.

 

You'll plotz, boychik, trust me.

 

It's not an emergency, per se.

Multi-engine planes are designed to climb at such-and-such a rate per minute, even on one engine.

Even if a plane lost an engine on its takeoff roll, it would still have enough power to continue the takeoff and establish a climb at x feet per minute (x depending on the make and model of aircraft, atmospheric conditions and temperature, as tbf mentioned).

 

This is why airplanes suck ...

1.Planes fly.

2.Flying involves not being on the ground.

3.Not being on the ground involves vertigo, paranoia, and the possibility of certain death by plummeting skytank.

4.You're not driving.

5.You don't ever know what's really going on.

 

Give this man Bill McLoughlin a raise. Based on his quotes in the article, I can see this guy staying calm under pressure. Who knows, maybe his work helped avert the level three emergency, which would be a crash:

 

Taking this from the story and fixing it:

"Ground-kissing Passengers from the 140-seat aircraft were put on another American flight Amtrak, Greyhound or on flights from other carriers to get to Atlanta, he said."