Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f...
by michaelcampbell on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @01:59PM
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I've got a few years on you evidently; I was in a college mechanical drafting class that had just let out after the disaster. As it was at UCF east of Orlando, I had to but look East and see it.
Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f...
by ericcumbee on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:20PM
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Columbia happened on a Saturday.
Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f...
by snapetom on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:32PM
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Heh. Yeah, they're clearly confused with Challenger.
A ne'er-do-well kid ran into my elementary school classroom and exclaimed, "The space shuttle exploded!" and the teacher turned on the TV.
For Columbia, I was driving to get bagels for breakfast. I was on the I-80 to I-5 interchange in Sacramento, CA when I first heard on the radio there was something wrong.
Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f...
by michaelcampbell on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:36PM
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Yes, was thinking Challenger; where the SRB's that <parent> mentioned were relevant. Columbia I saw on TV with my toddler, who's a sophomore in college now.
I walked in and didn't believe people when they said what happened. (I had a similar reaction when my spouse woke me up at the crack of dawn by announcing "They knocked down the Towers!") Then the sub rolls in a TV cart. Oh.
The other thing that struck me was that nobody editorialized what they were seeing. I knew that the twin smoke trails spiraling off to the sites were the SRBs, three seconds into the video. There was nothing else they could possibly be. But the announcer was very clear to say they might be the SRBs but we don't know anything yet. As an adult having sat through many lower-stakes RCA and production outage situations, I can respect their reserve. As a child it just made me even more upset.