I guess I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue

[angelophile]

So, I don't know if everyone heard about this, but yesterday a plane crash landed at London Heathrow, missing the runway by about 500 yards. 18 people out of the 136 passengers suffered mild injuries and the planes wheels were torn off at impact. Footage yesterday would have suggested pilot error may have been to blame.

Except:

Today it's emerged that both of the plane's engines suffered catastrophic failure two miles away from the airport.

Two miles.

The co-pilot, John Coward, glided the plane down without engines and managed to land, with passengers sustaining only minor injuries.

That 500 yards is looking pretty damn good now.

John Coward? The guy's a fricking hero.

Comments

[tadiera.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we were talking about that today. Pretty damn amazing.

Guy needs to change his name.

[occamsnailfile.livejournal.com]

What a name for a hero, my. But the landing was pretty impresssive.

[kotszok.livejournal.com]

Sorry if I seem like a stalker, I just peeked in your LJ because I need excuses not to be working on my MA thesis and I was pretty amazed at this post. I hadn't heard about what happened, but it sounds really amazing, I hope the pilot is duly awarded for what he did! Reading about this gave me goosebumps!

[kawaiiwhit.livejournal.com]

I was just rolling through, too, and I just wanted to say that I giggled at the title more than anything. ^_^