It looks as though the tailcone remains attached via a cable or something and dangles, thus avoiding contact with the tarmac.

:D

With the 88, I think I might take my chances and just jump to the ground so as to avoid missing the slide. :eek:

Glad it wasn't windy and that thing blew right back into the slide.

I'm so contemplating creating a new thread: "Why Delta Still Lives in the Dark Ages: Part II"

"Okay, let's start where we left off..." :D



BTW, I went to airliners.net, sometimes you'll see some insider stuff come out from there but most of the time you have to wade through
http://204.45.110.156/bin/082009/125...uy_barfing.gif
and this time is no different. I wish I had an account there but I am an airline pilot and won't pay cover charges. So I have to put up with not telling someone "we can't put the stairs down from inside the airplane? Really? News to me since we have a procedure on it." :rolleyes:

BTW the procedure is very simple:

Take a flashlight, pull the handle but don't pull the handle that jettisons the tailcone.

Thank you,
Management.

Perhaps hard landing caused the tire to blow, which was shredded and ingested into the engine and started an engine fire? Plausible.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2514/...5b0c6264bd.jpg


:D

If newK were a cat, he would be the most interesting cat in the world:

http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.c...-the-world.jpg

You guys are out of control. This is an aviation forum.

So here's a picture of Katy Perry.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lKe2XK1kSn...katy-perry.jpg

ME SO HUNGRY! Yummy.

TEN

LOL 80.

btw I hate cats.

I was at Walmart the other day and there was the quintessential cat woman there buy cat food. Relatively young one too but the whole look of a cat woman.