Maybe Harrison Ford should stop flying

[dmbetc]

He's either the luckiest or worst pilot.

http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/...irport-n720826

[JRS1386]

You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.

[Arby]

"Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?"



What a dope

[Spell On Me]

Originally Posted by Arby

"Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?"



What a dope

Yea, like the 737 was in the wrong place. I would have liked to hear the response.

[Arby]

oh shit, Warner Bros. just picked it up.

Harrison Ford will be played by Tom Hanks

[dmbetc]

Originally Posted by Arby

oh shit, Warner Bros. just picked it up.

Harrison Ford will be played by Tom Hanks

[Rodey]

Get off my plane!

[junior94]

what the hell is an aluminum falcon?!


so silly but god I love that line. Anyway, yea considering the old adage about how statistically it's still by far the safest way to travel, I think the universe may indeed be trying to tell him something. Stay the fuck on the ground (or, I don't know, at least just stick to a chopper?)

[Roose13]

Twelve parsecs my ass. I knew he was lying.

[coldengrey12]

Isn't a parsec a measure of distance and not time?

[DIDriveOut2SPAC]

Originally Posted by Rodey

Get off my plane!

@HarrisonFord Get off my Plane!!

--American Airlines

[ExistenceNow]

Originally Posted by junior94

what the hell is an aluminum falcon?!


so silly but god I love that line. Anyway, yea considering the old adage about how statistically it's still by far the safest way to travel, I think the universe may indeed be trying to tell him something. Stay the fuck on the ground (or, I don't know, at least just stick to a chopper?)

Pretty sure he's crashed a chopper too.

[defcon]

Get off his taxiway.

[DIDriveOut2SPAC]

Originally Posted by defcon

Get off his taxiway.

Nice One!

[Roose13]

Originally Posted by defcon

Get off his taxiway.

Good thing he doesn't play for the Patriots

[justink]

pretty sure this is big oops #3.

but he's saved some lives too, so i guess it's a wash.

[daveshookme]

It is very, very difficult to mistake a taxiway for a runway. Like, that's one of the first lessons in getting your private's. It's damn near impossible.

Pull his license, he should be done.

[daveshookme]

Seriously, short of deviating from ATC's directions, this is one of the dumbest things to do. Clearly wasn't aware of/using the glideslope indicators which are marked to be on the left of the runway, meaning either he didn't look up where they should be or doesn't use them, both of which could be disastrous. And again, not being able to differentiate between the taxiway and runway is such an egregious mistake... I'm speechless.

[junior94]

Originally Posted by ExistenceNow

Pretty sure he's crashed a chopper too.

fucks sake, then alright they just need to like friggin physically restrain him from getting in the seat anymore if that's what it takes.

[dmbetc]

Originally Posted by daveshookme

Seriously, short of deviating from ATC's directions, this is one of the dumbest things to do. Clearly wasn't aware of/using the glideslope indicators which are marked to be on the left of the runway, meaning either he didn't look up where they should be or doesn't use them, both of which could be disastrous. And again, not being able to differentiate between the taxiway and runway is such an egregious mistake... I'm speechless.

This post is basically a foreign language to me.

[daveshookme]

Originally Posted by dmbetc

This post is basically a foreign language to me.

deviating from ATC's directions = disobeying what Air Traffic Control tells you. = BAD. fucking bad. Only way you can do this legally is if you've already declared an emergency in-air, in which case you can do whatever the fuck you want to get the plane on the ground safely. Sully broke about 700 laws/regulations, but he declared an emergency in-flight so it gets swept under the rug, mostly. Don't fucking deviate.

glideslope indicators are (usually) 4 lights on the side of the runway.

In this case, as well as at John Wayne, there is a 4 light system Precision Approach Path Indicator. You want 2 red lights and 2 white lights. When you do, that means you're approaching the runway at a 3 degree angle = good. If you're above that 3 degree line, you get more white lights/less red lights (you're going to land long/past the designated landing area. Not the end of the world usually as you normally have more than enough runway to brake safely). If you're above it, you get more reds/less whites (you're going to land short of the end of the runway, bad bad bad).

So before you fly to a specific airport, you're supposed to look up several things about the destination. One of which is what kind of approach indicators they use (how many lights, some larger airports have more sophisticated systems that also tell you left/right of the center of the runway, etc.) and in the airport manual it tells you where these lights are located. If he knew they were supposed to be on the left of runway 20L, he would've known he wasn't lined up with the fucking runway. So either he didn't know they should've been on the left, or he wasn't looking at them.

[MVDMB]

Originally Posted by dmbetc

This post is basically a foreign language to me.

e·gre·gious
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adjective
1.
outstandingly bad; shocking.
"egregious abuses of copyright"
synonyms: shocking, appalling, terrible, awful, horrendous, frightful, atrocious, abominable, abhorrent, outrageous; More

[scrock25]

The engines failed on the plane he crashed last year, how is that his fault

If anything, we should be praising him for bringing the plane down yards away from a very densely populated area.

[Gene Parmesan]

Why should anyone get praise for not almost killing someone with their hobby?

[scrock25]

[dmbolp]

And I assume he maintained his own plane, the plane that had a maintenance problem

[Gene Parmesan]

Seriously, it's stupid. Why should you get credit for saving lives YOU put in danger? We're not talking about Sully doing his job.
We're talking about a rich dude flying an antique plane over populated neighborhoods for fun. That's a hobby, not a practical mode of transportation.

[scrock25]