UPS Flight 6 Memorial
09-03-2010, 06:20 PM
#71
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Originally Posted by FrontSeat
makes for a good story too on larry king...but only if you fly pax,,,cargo would only just get a small mention on the 5th page the next day and never mentioned again...
09-03-2010, 06:30 PM
#73
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... man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
Melville
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We will all meet a circumstance we cannot overcome. Whether Shuttle, Concorde, or 747. We all go forth against the elements of weather, the machine and the system every time we lower the boats. The crew did the best they could and I think it better to die doing that which you love than under the terrible circumstance of old age.
All sympathy for the crew and their loved ones. Fly west, as we all shall in the end.
Melville
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We will all meet a circumstance we cannot overcome. Whether Shuttle, Concorde, or 747. We all go forth against the elements of weather, the machine and the system every time we lower the boats. The crew did the best they could and I think it better to die doing that which you love than under the terrible circumstance of old age.
All sympathy for the crew and their loved ones. Fly west, as we all shall in the end.
09-03-2010, 06:35 PM
#75
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Originally Posted by FrontSeat
Why don't you berate the FDX pilots on here who are touting their Fire Suppression System being installed. One said this is what a company who cares about safety does for its own....
I am agreeing with them....post #55
I am agreeing with them....post #55
In any case, I could not stop thinking about this all day. I can only imagine what was going through those poor pilot's minds in those last moments. I can't imagine the families getting those phone calls. Something like this just really makes it hit home that this could have happened to any one of us.
09-03-2010, 06:43 PM
#77
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It is especially difficult reading the accounts of other crews that were flying in the area that heard it happen. I cannot imagine what those guys must have been going through trying to get the plane on the ground, not being able to see the instruments in front of them. I am horrified just thinking of myself in such a situation. Godspeed to the two UPS pilots who perished today. Their families are in my thoughts and prayers tonight.
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