Cowboys plane makes unscheduled landing in New Orleans

[firehawk350]

Dont fly United either, freaking horror story.

I was flying to San Franciso, three hour flight. I had a window seat and the captain came on and said we were having some turbulance. Apparently there is a supercell thunderstorm over Colorado and this brilliant pilot decided he was going to fly through the damn thing, too long to fly around it.

The whole freaking plane was bouncing and rolling side-to-side. The vibration was shaking the whole plane, and the plane would "fall" from one air pocket to the next, you would get that falling feeling in your stomach like you do on a roller coaster.

This continued for a freaking hour......try getting on your favorite rollar coaster and the attendent starts the ride and says "I will be back in an hour".

BY THE WAY, ONCE WE LANDED WE NOTICED A PIECE OF SKIN ON THE WING WAS MISSING, THE SIZE OF A LICENSE PLATE I WOULD SAY.

Your much safer at 30000 feet than trying to land with that storm bearing down on you.

 

[DallasEast]

Not only rumor, but horrible misinformation. RCS (radar cross section, or how big a target appears to a radar) is determined more by shape than anything else. The average car has the radar cross section of a large military cargo aircraft. A golf ball can be tracked as easily as an F-15 (not taking into account clutter and the doppler notch).

Anyways, given the shape (mostly well rounded edges all over the airframe) of every private jet I've ever seen, I doubt his is hard to see by radar. But if he flies low and slow in any type of aircraft, he would be hard to detect (called terrain masking).

Unless I completely missed the sarcasm, in that case, ignore my post!

If you're ever in the market for a buying a bridge, I have the perfect one just for you.

 

[5Stars]

If you're ever in the market for a buying a bridge, I have the perfect one just for you.

That one that just collapsed up in the East somewhere?

Did you build that bridge, DallasEast?

 

[Undisputed]

It was that damn Sean Payton again. He knows our guys are susceptible to plane crashes.


...except Tony Romo, who can fly.

 

[Big Dakota]

If you're ever in the market for a buying a bridge, I have the perfect one just for you.

:laugh2: I have some PRIME ocean front property here in South Dakota

 

[Big Dakota]

That one that just collapsed up in the East somewhere?

Did you build that bridge, DallasEast?

Minneapolis

 

[alancdc]

I'm not overly supersticious, but this weekend isn't starting out right.

 

[Angus]

Cowboys leave Nawlins


The Cowboys' charter flight made an unscheduled stop in New Orleans after their plane had some hydraulic problems.
The Cowboys were forced to land in New Orleans and were waiting where they waited about two hours. A plane was dispatched to New Orleans, but the problem was fixed and the team left around 5:30 p.m. central.
They were scheduled to land at 4:40 p.m. eastern in Fort Lauderdale and arrive at the team's hotel at Weston, Fla., at 5:20 p.m. The players are off until 8:30 p.m. meetings but those plans should change.
We'll try and find more when the team lands.
Posted by Todd Archer http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sharedcontent/dws/img/standing/icons/email.gif at 5:50 PM

 

[DallasEast]

That one that just collapsed up in the East somewhere?

Did you build that bridge, DallasEast?

No, I didn't. ( topic = :nono2: )

 

[sago1]

If the Cowboys had arrived at their hotel on time in Weston, what would their schedule normally be like? Would they have team meetings and then have some free time or vice versa? I would have thought they'd have had a walkthrough at the stadium sometime on Saturday to adjust to the field, etc.

 

[Bleu Star]

No worries. Nothing is going to stop this juggernaut.

 

[Rampage]

it was probally belicheat. he probally had somebody steal our playbooks

 

[true_north]

Cowboys Charter Jet Makes Unscheduled Landing
(CBS 11 News) NEW ORLEANS The charter plane for the Dallas Cowboys made an unscheduled stop in New Orleans while the team was headed to Miami on Saturday afternoon.

The emergency landing came as the plane was reportedly having hydraulic problems. One of three hydraulic units on the plane had failed.

The plane did land at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport without incident and all 151 passengers on board are said to be safe at the airport.

Babe Laufenberg and CBS 11 & TXA 21 news crews were on the plane when the landing took place.

Officials were able to fix the plane's mechanical malfunctions after a delay of more than two hours.
Nearly one year ago, the Cowboys' charter jet made an emergency landing in Nashville when assistant coach Tony Ollison became ill on the team's flight home from Carolina.

The Cowboys face the Dolphins on Sunday night. The last time Dallas visited Miami was in 1996, when the Cowboys won 29-10. With another victory, they would be 2-0 for the first time since 1999.

 

[Big Dakota]

Jerry really does need to do better.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Anonymous teammate to Don Meredith on a charter returning home through a particularly turbulent take-off:

"Don, I think this is it, we're going down!"

Meredith, leans back in his seat, takes a long drag off his cigarette, and replies in his dry Texas drawl:

"Well, it's been a good'un, ain't it?"

:laugh2:

 

[ZeroClub]

Plane must have been wearing a blue jersey.

:laugh2: