Originally Posted by
DelDah Capt
I have no doubt that they did a great job of putting the crippled plane safely on the deck, but when you read this part of the story:
You have to wonder if they pushed their luck a little too far and maybe should have called for a tug like we do in the simulator...they were already Gold Medal winnners for landing safely (Yes, I'm a Hall of Fame Monday Morning Quarterback)
It's mis-reported. The pilots kept asking for chocks to be put in while the aircraft was still on the pavement, but rolling verrry slowly. The emergency crews said they'd chock it when it stopped.
It never stopped until it was in the grass...It just slowly drifted there.