They're saying they hit a flock of geese, and an expert pilot on the air said Canadian geese can do a lot of damage. That ... surprises me.
Angel: How're you feeling? Faith: Like I did mushrooms and got eaten by a bear.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Jan 15, 2009 11:01:57 am PST #1455 of 30000
Because books.
Laura - Jan 15, 2009 11:01:59 am PST #1456 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
They are blaming the crash on the Canadians, well their geese anyway. Scary.
eta: gooses Amy
Jesse - Jan 15, 2009 11:10:34 am PST #1457 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I feel like I've heard WWII stories about some specific bird flying into plane engines a lot, but I would have thought the machine design now would guard against that....
Tom Scola - Jan 15, 2009 11:13:45 am PST #1458 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
So far, it sounds like everyone got off the plane OK.
§ ita § - Jan 15, 2009 11:13:54 am PST #1459 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
an expert pilot on the air said Canadian geese can do a lot of damage
And American geese are chopped liver?
Steph L. - Jan 15, 2009 11:14:51 am PST #1460 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And American geese are chopped liver?
Mmmm....pate....
Cass - Jan 15, 2009 11:15:30 am PST #1461 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
And American geese are chopped liver?
Among other chopped bits.
Jesse - Jan 15, 2009 11:19:22 am PST #1462 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wow -- the picture on the front page of the Times website is all people standing on the wings of the floating plane. Cool.
Kathy A - Jan 15, 2009 11:19:34 am PST #1463 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Scary stuff about that plane! I was a kid when Flight 191 went down at O'Hare--the photo at that link has been burned in my memory since then.
IObamaN, the Chicago Reader has a collection of stories from their archives, including a profile from 1995, when he was running for his first state senate seat. That 1995 profile is interesting--it mentions the Annenberg project in passing (the one where he met Ayers), as well as his work with ACORN.
Tom Scola - Jan 15, 2009 11:20:15 am PST #1464 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The picture on Gothamist.com is good, too.