Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Tweets Of The Day

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

"The United States said Monday it was ready to review key sanctions on Iran if it comes into compliance with a nuclear deal ahead of European-led indirect talks aimed at salvaging the accord"

A cave was predicted and a cave is what we got.

Anonymous said...

"After 2 missed approaches in bad weather, the pilot told the approach controller that he was "running out of fuel" and that he "needed priority." The flight received neither sympathy nor priority."

"the controller(s) apparently did not know that running out of fuel is a serious event when it happens to an aircraft in flight."

"Seventy-five dead."

Democrat Way

Anonymous said...

"I informed the scribe that the ATC tapes were transcribed fully in English and that no foreign language was heard on the tapes."

" The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the crash occurred due to the flight crew failing to properly declare a fuel emergency... "

"The failures of the flight crew were cited as the probable cause of the crash, but the weather, air traffic controller performances, and FAA traffic management were also cited as contributing to the events that led to the accident. This conclusion was controversial, with disagreement between investigators, passengers, and Avianca as to who was ultimately responsible. Eventually, the U.S. government joined with Avianca and settled ..."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avianca_Flight_52


Pilot: "We're out of fuel "

Air Traffic Controller: "But you did not say "emergency". So BACK of the LINE with you BUD!"

Anonymous said...



tailstrike.com/250190.htm

Thats right to one eight zero on the heading, and, ah, we'll try once again. We're running out of fuel.

Advise him we are emergency!

Advise him we don't have fuel.

Climb and maintain three thousand, and ah, we're running out of fuel, sir.

Did you already advise that we don't have fuel?


Flame out on it.

Flame out on engine number three, essential on number two, one number one.



You might not have an interest in Affirmative Action, but Affirmative Action has an interest in you!

Anonymous said...


"The conversations with the ground controllers were in English"


' At one point, a crew member said in an apparent reference to a controller, “the guy is angry.” '


latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-28-mn-259-story.html

Anonymous said...


The crew alerted the controller that they were low on fuel and in a subsequent transmission stated “We’re running out of fuel, sir.” The controller asked the crew to climb to which the first officer replied “No, sir, we’re running out of fuel.”

Anonymous said...




2132:56 (Sound of engine spooling down.)



Anonymous said...

www.askcaptainlim.com/-air-crash-aviation-34/830-avianca-flight-52-why-the-pilots-failed-to-use-the-proper-phraseology.html

Interesting comments, all the way around