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    Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake

    Southwest bringing Wi-Fi to the low-cost skies
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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    Someone probably just snuck an old-skool mercury thermometer on board. Mercury doesn't play nice with aluminium.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    West Virginia never looked so good.
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    Summertime. Convertibles.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    It's gremlins, folks. There is just no other explanation out there.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    Well this post certainly ensures that I will obtain an prescription for Xanax the next time I fly.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    07/14/09

    @momof3wildkids: Not me. I used to get massively stoned to fly but since 9/11, I feel invigorated, like I can't wait to calmly yet efficiently assist passengers down the slides from the emergency exit, or gracefully arrive at the pilot's controls like Karen Black of the Great Plains to help land the plane, or stealthily open the femoral artery of a hijacker with my smuggled cuticle scissors. I am prepared!
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    07/14/09

    @Mama Penguino: Can you fly with me to Napa for my next girls' weekend? Mid-October. I promise to have you wined up within 2 hours of landing on our way up to Calistoga.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    Holey jet!!
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    Image of Shini: R.O.A.C.H. Shini: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    Come on, it's only the size of a football, they could have used a baby or small child to plug that right up.



    Does make me wonder what caused it though. Not an obvious place for an object strike or someone on the aoa doing damage. Shouldn't be too hard for a mechanic with a bridge crane to damage that area though.
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    Image of irishbreakfast irishbreakfast
    07/14/09

    @Shini: R.O.A.C.H.: http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/03/02/323284/southwest-settles-fine-with-faa-for-missed-inspections.html
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    Image of Shini: R.O.A.C.H. Shini: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/14/09

    @irishbreakfast: That's what I was trying to remember this morning! Thank you. As long as the hole is pretty small it's no big deal, am I right?
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    On the way to Baltimore, eh? "Somebody just up and Omar Littled that plane, yo!"
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    I heard this was all an elaborate marketing ploy for HBO's new series "WireLost".
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    It's such a cute little thing. (Pic from a passenger, via Twitter)
    Share photos on twitter with Twitpic" />
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    Does a hole in the plane make it significantly more difficult to land? Depends on the size of the hole, I guess.
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    07/14/09

    @CaptainFantastic: At the very least it alters the airflow over the plane, which I gather could be really, really bad. (I.e. I would have been covered in my own poop, had this happened to me.)
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    Ceiling fail.
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    Image of watertiger watertiger
    07/14/09

    @SwissMister: and that was the end of Ceiling Cat.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    The hole in the ceiling was crude

    The awakening from my nap was rather rude

    It happened at cruising altitude

    Now Southwest will likely get sued.
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    Image of LatestBy LatestBy
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    I just peed in Richard's pants a little.
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    Image of Spaceman Bill Leah Spaceman Bill Leah
    07/14/09

    In reply to Sully Type Lands Plane After It Gets a Hole, For Christ's Sake
    Thank you, dated American airline fleet, for ensuring that my parents and my in-laws will never, ever try to visit me.
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