A towbar. It was a freakin' towbar.

Mucha Cerveza: I can see the airport from my job's parking lot, nothing going on yet, just three helicopters cirling the airport

black apaches? yeah, you should just forget what you saw and maybe change your name.

Looks like someone at the last airport forgot to unhook a trailer hitch or something.

jcavner: i remember on some tv show I watched that pilots are trained when they have an issue with the front landing gear to land on there back wheels hard in hopes the force snaps the front in place... of course it was tv...

West Wing.

Safe landing. Not news.

I just wanted to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.

Absolutely assinine coverage. That being said I hate the Super - 80s that American flies.

I have no joke here, I just like saying...

"Vultuuureeess..."

I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Picachu.



/image will haunt your dreams forever

I speak jive.

Looks like the front gear is a bit more compressed than usual, but then I'm no expert.

God bless the fine union workers of Florida for giving us some Friday afternoon humor.

O'hare United... first UFOs now leaving tow boots left on MD-80s

surprised those cops haven't tazed any of the firemen yet....
/obscure?
//too soon?
//too many slashies?

Interrupted Infinitum: Was a nuke, a Geo and Fritos involved?

MMMMMMMM..Nina

Live Air Traffic Control from Miami International.


http://audio.liveatc.net:8012/kmia.m3u

caribou: Nice landing. Everybody wins.

Obligatory.

I was rooting for it to burst into flames as soon as the nose gear touched but then everybody get out ok. It would have been a nice story. In reality I knew 45 minutes ago that I was totally wasting my time watching that.

TonnageVT: That was such a beautiful landing, great job mr./ms. pilot man/woman!!

Yeah, he has earned a nice frosty beer. Oh wait...

TonnageVT: That was such a beautiful landing, great job mr./ms. pilot man/woman!!

Everyone knows women can't park.

samimgreen: TommyDeuce: Guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

/was my headline more or less

omfg, add comment what what is the first farkin post under the red line, YOURS!

/congrats...

Great minds and all that . . .

Now let's kick back and enjoy the Airplane quotefest to follow.

meh, boooooring.

/wanted sparks
//and more slashies

landed just fine

now get back to work...its only 4 on the east coast...

Highroller48: AgeOfReason: That being said I hate the Super - 80s that American flies.

Flying AA and on a super-80 for 4 of 6 hops (round trip) on a Caribbean trip next week. Interested to know why you hate the MD-83s.

Old and cramped. Plus I am always back in that freaking stupid row next to the bathroom.

I prefer newer equipment (at least from the 90s) from companies still in business. I think Boeing services these from a buyout, but I am not sure.

On a serious note, I would NOT want to be a passenger on that plane right now. I wish them much luck...

This drivel ruined my lunch break, while I downed a blood red bowl of Borscht.

/eat a bowl of dicks CNN "Headline News"
//2-22-08: Never Forget El Farquistador

You guys are dangerous.

TommyDeuce: samimgreen: TommyDeuce: Guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

/was my headline more or less

omfg, add comment what what is the first farkin post under the red line, YOURS!

/congrats...

Great minds and all that . . .

Now let's kick back and enjoy the Airplane quotefest to follow.

Johnny, Do you like gladiator movies?

Imagine all the poopy pants in the cabin right now. Lots of blushing I am sure...

It took really big balls or really small brains to post that, Subby.

I salute both :D

Bith Set Me Up: They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting in to. I say, let 'em crash!

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TheGreatZarquon: This site (new window) has streaming video with airport audio.

A Denver news station covering a plane situation in Florida. What a country!

Bith Set Me Up: They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting in to. I say, let 'em crash!

If I find out the pilot was Rex Kramer, Danger Seeker, I'm leaving.

FTFA:

That clears it up.

Did the plane look like a big Tylenol?

toraque: Highroller48: Wow...you can totally hear the bitter disappointment in the Anchor's voice.

No, you can't have your Aaron Brown-esque career-making live disaster moment. Not yours.

Whatever happened to Aaron Brown, anyway?

I wondered too. From Wiki (c&p):

On November 3, 2005, CNN announced that Brown would be leaving the network, with Anderson Cooper's program Anderson Cooper 360° replacing NewsNight as the flagship program in CNN's evening lineup in an effort to improve low ratings. The two had shared anchoring duties in the 10:00 PM time slot through the early fall after Cooper's break out success covering Hurricane Katrina. Many said Brown's cerebral "news for grown-ups" style would be missed, while others found him lacking.

In May 2006, it was announced that Brown would serve as the John J. Rhodes Chair in Public Policy and American Institutions at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University. In Spring 2007 he co-taught a course called "Turning Points in Television News History" and the next year he became a professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication, teaching television history.

/I'll bet Mr. AC360 added that "while others found him lacking" part.

"Ladies and gentlemen, light'em up 'cause we're going down."

From the chopper feed (http://mfile.akamai.com/12908/live/reflector:35359.asx): "Chopper, What's our plan now that the plane is...at the gate?...That's where they are"

Almost sounded disappointed.

But now they've got the chopper flying over Miami. Kinda cool.

i was eating lunch in a sub shop playing cnn when they broke the story.

it was farking ridiculous... they brought in experts, they had a helicopter hovering over the airport watching every single plane land because they weren't sure when it would be the plane having trouble...

the farking landing gear didn't retract and they decided to land again. the experts were sitting there saying "well, they'll probably circle for a few hours to burn some fuel so they don't have to land heavy, but there shouldn't be a problem".

you heard it here folks, we'll be here with non stop coverage of a plane flying in a circle. it's like the nascar, only even more boring!

oh whats that? we take that back, they're landing now. shiat, now what do we do all afternoon to kill time?