Old 05-04-2019 | 05:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot
Landing at Jax NAS. Dod charter. All souls accounted for and plane is in the St. John’s river. That river is gator infested. Glad all survived and then didn’t get eaten after the fact.
Your probably being sarcastic......it's hard to tell, but the St John's (in Jax area at least) is far from "gator infested", at least in the sense that gator attack would be my first concern.
Plane probably killed a couple Manatees though where they parked it.
I'm sure getting out of the plane and into the dark waters of the St Johns on a cloudy/stormy night was not the welcome to Jax that Miami Air was hoping for though.
Luckily not even a broken bone, although the press is fixated on a missing dog and cat (didn't even know you could bring pets from Gitmo). Only 21 out of 140? went to the hospital and most are already released. No reported gator attacks.

Back in the 90's, when ATI??? was doing the GITMO rotator, I saw a pretty banged up Super DC8 that had taxied right into a hanger and hit the building about 3ft into their wing, despite being "on the line" which "normally" worked fine with the DC8 but because this was a longer wing, no one checked before the plane taxied right into the building.
The Wing had a big gash in the leading edge that took months to repair, but the Hangar took it real hard and took a couple of years to get fixed.

Glad to see that everyone made it away from this incident and will live to do another rotation in GITMO.... well except for one particular 737.
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