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Title: So, you think you're a hot stick?
Post by: gofaster on August 22, 2002, 10:11:47 AM

There I was at 34,000 feet, out over the Atlantic ocean, in my jumbo, chock-full of passengers.  Suddenly, the engines sputtered and died...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=676&ncid=716&e=20&u=/usatoday/20020822/ts_usatoday/4382364

Title: So, you think you're a hot stick?
Post by: miko2d on August 22, 2002, 11:18:49 AM

Only later did he learn that he had missed two concrete culverts that could have damaged their jet. ''No man could have done that. Obviously God was steering the plane through that,'' he said.
 Obviously divine intevention was required to spare DHL's insurance company a few tens of thousand dollars of damage repair bill. We live in such a paradize that God has nothing better to do. May be God just wanted to be a copilot for that guy...

 No matter - I believe he rather than God saved those people in Boeing. I wish him best.

 miko

Title: So, you think you're a hot stick?
Post by: Epsilon 5 on August 22, 2002, 02:28:07 PM

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There I was at 34,000 feet, out over the Atlantic ocean, in my jumbo, chock-full of passengers. Suddenly, the engines sputtered and died...

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And the captain was from Montréal ;)