Following flight N306FE
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First the link (so you can get a visual):
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N306FE so it's in route right now (as of typing this).
About this plane (from wikipedia):
DC-10-30AF Also known as the DC-10-30F. This was the all freight version of the -30. Production was to start in 1979, but Alitalia did not confirm its order then. Production began in May 1984 after the first aircraft order from FedEx. A total of 10 were built. N306FE is designated as a retrofit.
On April 7, 1994 this plane made the following maneuvers (possibly more that were unknown)
- 135 degree bank
- The plane barrel-rolled left at nearly 400 miles per hour
- Then flew inverted at 19,700 feet
- A series of of undocumented (unpredictable) maneuvers
- Pilot abruptly threw the yoke forward, and sent the plane into a vertical dive.
- Throttle controls were pressed forward to their stops
- Diving DC-10 accelerated past 500 miles per hour
- Then past the instruments’ capacity to register.
Flight 705 had traveled faster than any DC-10 had ever gone, and underwent velocity stresses on the airframe equating to about $800,000 in damages.
And it still flies in the Federal Express fleet with tail number N306FE.
The event:
Fedex 705 CVR Transcript
Cockpit Voice Recorder Transcript of Fedex 705. DC-10 hammer attack by employee Auburn Calloway.
And the survivors as they were being admitted to the ICU:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/local-news/31pilots
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Surprising that the pylons stayed on the plane.
(yes, I know that they changed the maintenance regulations so that wouldn't happen again
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</p>Gad....I totally missed that tiny-ass text.
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Obligatory:
I watched the Air Crash Investigations episode about that incident. It was really exciting to watch.
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Air Disasters?
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Mayday.
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I'd ask you to get a life, but I know that would only result in you spending a few hours on Amazon searching for one.
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You forgot May Day, the character from the James Bond film A View To A Kill, and of course as pointed out in Red Dwarf that (unsurprisingly) Lister knew something Rimmer didn't... Rimmer's calling out a may-day, and wonders why it's 'may day' and start suggesting alternatives 'the fourteenth Wednesday after Pentecost', and Lister points out that it is, in fact, French - m'aidez - "help me".
Filed under: do I qualify for the lowest level of pedantic dickweedery badge yet?
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and of course as pointed out in Red Dwarf that (unsurprisingly) Lister knew something Rimmer didn't... Rimmer's calling out a may-day, and wonders why it's 'may day' and start suggesting alternatives 'the fourteenth Wednesday after Pentecost', and Lister points out that it is, in fact, French - m'aidez - "help me".
Also, Ascension Sunday. And I was actually looking for the clip before reading your post 'till the end.
hangs head in shame
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I knew it was something else followed by the 14th Wednesday after Pentecost but I couldn't remember which one and given how hard it is to YouTube for Red Dwarf in general... I couldn't be arsed either.
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BBC is stingy on YT. Fair enough tbh.
But they have nothing, nothing on my ability to remember unimportant details from things that are, ultimately, inconsequential!
... anyone seen my wallet? Can't remember where I left it...
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It's right there, on the place that contains the surface supporting your wallet.
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So, as it turns out, the Smithsonian channel here in the States is about a season behind. They aired an episode from the previous season as "new" last night.
Mayday (disambiguation) - Wikipedia
