Cool Pic

Snagged this from a video from the Today Show on NBC (bing, bah, boom). This is an Emirates 380 (the big one) landing at LHR from DXB. That is landing at London Heathrow from Dubai for those uneducated in the world of airport codes.

Ooh boy, wouldn't you have LOVED to be on that plane?  Actually, Steve and I were on a United 767 coming into Orlando years ago when I swear that lightning hit the plane.  The entire cabin just went bright white and the sound was deafening.  The cabin was then absolutely dead quiet because everyone was then wondering "how am I going to sit here for another 20 minutes with shit in my pants?"  The captain came on and said that it was "static discharge".  I turned to Steve and said "isn't that the technical term for lightning?"

And as for that huge Mo-Fo called the Airbus 380.  Let me tell you, I would never fly it.  Talk about a cattle car!  I mean, seriously, how do you evacuate a plane that big with that many people in 90 seconds?  Especially when dumb-ass passengers think that they should take their carry on with them.  You think I am going to jump on to a chute from the second level?  Let's play "I doubt it."

Though, there was a crash of an Air France 340 at YYZ (Toronto Pearson, you not-knowing-of-airport-codes) where the pilot over shot the runway in a bad storm on his second attempt.  It crashed into the Etobicoke Creek ravine, right up against the 401.  Are you not familiar with Toronto?  That is the super highway that connects Montreal to Toronto to Windsor/Detroit.  Everyone (297 pax and crew) got out in under 90 seconds, which is unreal considering two exits were blocked by the FIRE, one deflated when it was punctured, and one didn't even deploy!  So people JUMPED, which might not have been so bad since the belly of the plane was on the ground.  So think what would have happened if it was that huge A380; you gonna jump from the second tier?  Didn't think so.