Regional carrier jet runs off San Antonio runway
09-08-2008, 11:38 PM
#21
Che Guevara
Joined APC: Aug 2005
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Originally Posted by BlueMoon
You must have been kinda fast over the threshold then...You could weld the reversers shut on the CRJ (all models)....and they don't get that hot. Certainly not on an 8500' long runway, which SAT has.
06-03-2009, 10:54 PM
#25
Che Guevara
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Originally Posted by WeaselBoy
Since we are going with blind speculation...
My guess is that after touchdown a pack of chupacabras ran out onto the runway. The FO, knowing how rare and special these creatures are, decided the ecologically sound thing was to sacrifice the plane and passengers safety to protect them.
My guess is that after touchdown a pack of chupacabras ran out onto the runway. The FO, knowing how rare and special these creatures are, decided the ecologically sound thing was to sacrifice the plane and passengers safety to protect them.
06-03-2009, 11:35 PM
#27
Da Hudge
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If on a short runway like the one that is left open at SAT...with normal braking on the CRJ-200 the pnuematic reversers barely have time to open by the time you hit 80 knots anyways. They have to be the slowest opening reversers on any plane out there.
edit: last time I was there (a month or so ago?) it was a pretty short runway that was still open... 8500 certainly isn't very short. Blame a mechanical issue or a roving group of mexican immigrants in that case.
edit: last time I was there (a month or so ago?) it was a pretty short runway that was still open... 8500 certainly isn't very short. Blame a mechanical issue or a roving group of mexican immigrants in that case.
