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The Reaper
07-08-2008, 07:05
Hmm.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/obamas-plane-sc.html

Obama's Plane Scare
July 08, 2008 7:36 AM

By the time we all heard about it the unscheduled stop that the campaign plane of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, made in St. Louis yesterday was ultimately uneventful. But the incident was quite dicey there for a spell.

As the pilot struggled to re-gain control of the pitch of the plane - the angle of the nose of the plane - Obama was told that he and the other 44 passengers on board might have to assume the brace position upon landing, bending forward with their heads between their knees.

That ultimately did not happen, but National Transportation Safety Board chairman Mark Rosenker told ABC News' Dennis Powell yesterday that the incident "is extremely serious in this particular case."

An inflatable slide in the tail cone of the plane had deployed, making control of the plane tough. "There are hydraulic lines back there," Rosenker says. 'There are control cables that deal with the elevators and other area's of control surfaces for the aircraft, and could potentially make it extremely difficult if not impossible to fly the aircraft."

Three fire trucks met the plane on the tarmac in St. Louis. Obama called his wife Michelle to let her know he was fine before she saw anything on TV about the plane's unscheduled landing. The plane was supposed to land in Charlotte, NC.

This was not Obama's regular campaign plane, which is being overhauled. It was a loaner, having previously been used by Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY.


The old Clinton magic touch?

If the presumptive nominee dies in a plane crash, who would the new nominee be?

Maybe he should be careful who he borrows planes from. Or cars, for that matter.

TR

Razor
07-08-2008, 08:25
Wasn't he flying in another plane last year that ran into something while taxiing?

Kyobanim
07-08-2008, 10:56
Obama was told that he and the other 44 passengers on board might have to assume the brace position upon landing, bending forward with their heads between their knees

He's probably been in that position a lot . . .

The Reaper
07-08-2008, 11:00
Wasn't he flying in another plane last year that ran into something while taxiing?

That was another black televangelist's plane.

Not Wright, but they may have been black liberation theologists as well.

TR

Gypsy
07-08-2008, 12:47
If the presumptive nominee dies in a plane crash, who would the new nominee be?

Maybe he should be careful who he borrows planes from. Or cars, for that matter.

TR


I actually wondered that myself, especially had anything happened to him. Things that make you go Hmmmm indeed.

SF_BHT
07-08-2008, 12:58
Hmm.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/obamas-plane-sc.html




The old Clinton magic touch?

If the presumptive nominee dies in a plane crash, who would the new nominee be?

Maybe he should be careful who he borrows planes from. Or cars, for that matter.

TR

:confused: They would never do anything underhanded or would they.......:munchin

Sdiver
07-08-2008, 13:21
:confused: They would never do anything underhanded or would they.......:munchin

You could always ask Vince Foster......


....Oh wait.

Red Flag 1
07-08-2008, 16:53
Given that John McCain is an old fighter jock, I'm suprised Obama has yet to imply that this is something McCain did to him! At least a surrogate could bring this up to the media.

RF 1

tom kelly
07-08-2008, 18:22
You could always ask Vince Foster......


....Oh wait.
I wonder how the gun got into the White House? If only the Secret Service Presidential Detail Agents could talk or write a book about The Politicans who aspire to lead this country...tom kelly

AngelsSix
07-08-2008, 22:19
You have got to be kidding me. There are no control riggings in the tailcone of the MD-80, I have been inside those things more than a few times during C and D checks. We were required to deploy the slides on the aircraft during these checks. They could have manually deflated the damn thing and flew on if the flight crew had any idea what they were doing......sort of makes you wonder.
Here's a video of the tailcone ejection sequence on the MD-80...enjoy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLFJcA3Hlgo

JMI
07-09-2008, 00:11
Clintons trying to kill Obama in a Plane Crash? Are you people serious? Wait, I have seen the Whiskey thread. Nevermind.

Just because the old school neo-cons had the chance to run the country and lost does not mean every little incident that happens is Dem on Dem crime. You wish that is what happens, but no.

I really wish you guys had better ideas to combant the Dems than they eat their own.

Guy
07-09-2008, 02:19
Clintons trying to kill Obama in a Plane Crash? Are you people serious? Wait, I have seen the Whiskey thread. Nevermind.

Just because the old school neo-cons had the chance to run the country and lost does not mean every little incident that happens is Dem on Dem crime. You wish that is what happens, but no.

I really wish you guys had better ideas to combant the Dems than they eat their own.Take a look at the minorities that Bill Clinton employed during his administration...:munchin

Stay safe.