rowd
10-03-2006, 07:40 AM
Why are people who are professional flyer's and pilots saying that this is a one in a million shot? Why is it so implausible to keep flying after losing a wing tip? :huh:
And so began the most harrowing 30 minutes of my life. I would be told time and again in the next few days that nobody ever survives a midair collision. I was lucky to be alive — and only later would I learn that the 155 people aboard the Boeing 737 on a domestic flight that seems to have clipped us were not.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/02/business/03road.xlarge1.jpg
The wing and tail of the Embraer Legacy 600 were damaged in what seems to have been a collision with a Boeing 737 in Brazil on Friday. (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/business/03road.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=all)
And so began the most harrowing 30 minutes of my life. I would be told time and again in the next few days that nobody ever survives a midair collision. I was lucky to be alive — and only later would I learn that the 155 people aboard the Boeing 737 on a domestic flight that seems to have clipped us were not.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/02/business/03road.xlarge1.jpg
The wing and tail of the Embraer Legacy 600 were damaged in what seems to have been a collision with a Boeing 737 in Brazil on Friday. (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/business/03road.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=all)