American Airlines Flight 383, a Boeing 767, during takeoff roll from ORD suffered an uncontained catastrophic failure of their starboard engine yesterday. Just like the sim. Except in the sim you don’t have 161 passengers, the wing doesn’t melt, and people don’t make meme’s from your super cool pilot picture:
It’s fun to watch or read about special hurricane reconnaissance aircraft. But let’s not forget: The rest of us just get out of the way. Radar composite pic is the ERAU fleet fleeing Florida for safer pastures.
World’s Best Dad mugs are cute. Michael’s World’s Best Boss mug is funny in The Office. Now there is a World’s Okayest Pilot cup. (It’s a real thing, you can buy them online.) I think it’s pretty funny! A pleasant change from the Top Gun best of the best of the tip of the spear trash talk. And it gets me thinking: Is flying something that you are OK with being OK? Let’s hope it’s just ironic . . .
Not all safety department messages are good. Like “keep an eye out for laser beam events!?” What bad slogans have you seen?
Your first choice isn’t always right. So keep turning! Plot from AA flight ORD to DCA. Looks like they ended up on the upwind side of the storm, almost always a better place to be, even if it is a longer track.
