He returned from the 437-day Mir mission about one month shy of his 53rd birthday.
The future of flying
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That's definitely old enough to lose the easy fitness and recovery of youth. He must have ground out his exercises faithfully.
It could be a coincidence that this Boeing astronaut had to be hospitalized immediately after landing, something not related to returning to Earth's gravity. However, that's the most obvious thing to suspect. They might reveal what's going on after a little while. When I read the article about it, they weren't even identifying which astronaut.
Perhaps an ubiquitous experimental mutagen had something to do with his condition.
Three plane accidents happened in the past 24 hours.
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Two 737-800s of the three, including the one that was fully destroyed. More DEI coming home too roost most likely in all three cases.
There was a period of decades when plane crashs became almost unknown, due to effective procedures. That period seems to be behind us now.
There was a period of decades when plane crashs became almost unknown, due to effective procedures. That period seems to be behind us now.
Yeah exactly, makes you wonder why they were in such a hurry to land. Read elsewhere they still had plenty of airtime to get things sorted but chose to land way too soon.
I'm aware it's technically possible to land an airplane without the wheels out, but in this case, an explanation why they weren't being used hasn't been given.
Normally a pilot will radio the control tower explaining that the airplane wheels can't be used so the airport can prepare emergency procedures, such as putting foam padding on the runway and having emergency vehicles already waiting. Neither of that happened in Korea.
That video you posted on the Polish LOT airplane, you can see the white foam on the runway.
Something else went on in that Jeju 737 cockpit to make the flight crew make such a harried attempt at a landing. Maybe smoke, a fire, who knows right now, but its not normal.
A 737 - like any twin - can maintain flight attitude on one engine. Crews train for single engine ops all the time. Also, even with complete hydraulic failure (which wouldn't occur with just a bird strike), there are multiple ways to manually deploy the landing gear.
This jet went from bid ingestion/go-around to belly landing in about 9 minutes. Very abnormal. You can't run even a normal single-engine checklist in that time.
Also, who TF decided it would be a good idea to encase the ILS gantry in concrete?
Lots of questions about this one.
A 737 - like any twin - can maintain flight attitude on one engine. Crews train for single engine ops all the time. Also, even with complete hydraulic failure (which wouldn't occur with just a bird strike), there are multiple ways to manually deploy the landing gear.
This jet went from bid ingestion/go-around to belly landing in about 9 minutes. Very abnormal. You can't run even a normal single-engine checklist in that time.
Also, who TF decided it would be a good idea to encase the ILS gantry in concrete?
Lots of questions about this one.
Not only that but they landed going the wrong way! That's why they ended up hitting a solid barrier.
Any runway is designed to be used in either direction depending on the prevailing winds (and winds weren't a factor in this accident; a hurried gear-up landing touching down halfway down a short runway with no overrun was).
Take it to the DEI thread!
Looking at flight tracker info and internet posts, appears something is going on. I’ve never seen a red exclamation point symbol over arrival time before. Puts a pit in my stomach.
60 people aboard, not including the helicopter pilots. Pray for their souls. People waiting right now at the airport for loved ones that will never arrive.