The Anonymous Widower

Plan B Worked

We don’t know the full details yet, with the British Airways Airbus 319, that had to turn back with engine problems, as reported here on on the BBC.

But it would appear that what needs to be done after this sort of problem, was carried out correctly and the plane landed safely.

Engine failures on take-off are one of the biggest night-mare for a pilot. I never had one, but when I put full power on to lift my Cessna 340A piston-engined twin off the runway, I was always a bit nervous and running the emergency procedures through my mind. When I did have a partial engine failure it was in a single-engined Piper Arrow, but luckily I was five thousand feet above the ground. The full story is here.

I was just about to book a flight to somewhere served by BA.  Guess which airline I’ll be using!

people will try and make all sorts of conclusions about this incident at Heathrow.  Some will say, that it shows, that one day an aircraft will crash on London.  Others will say that if we move to an estuary airport, birdstrikes will be more common.

But now it would appear that two of the baby Airbuses have survived them, you could argue, that the technology is very much good enough. This was the other incident, where an Airbus landed on the Hudson River in New York.

May 24, 2013 Posted by | Transport/Travel | , | Leave a comment

Be Careful What You Tweet

Sally Bercow has dropped herself into it, by a tweet, that she meant to be conversational and mischievous. It’s all here on the BBC.

I might criticise people on this blog, but I’m very careful in criticising them only on subjects that are very much in the public domain and not just innuendo or gossip.

In some ways, I’m more likely to be sued not by a celebrity, but by some quack, who is promoting some scientifically-incorrect, who are I show the error of their ways.

May 24, 2013 Posted by | News | , | Leave a comment

Woolwich Attack Incredibly Hard To Stop

This was the headline on this story on the BBC.

It’s so true.

I once met a senior police officer, who told me that a lot of knife crimes in his experience happened, after someone had a row and lost it.  They might run into the kitchen at home and grab the first thing that was handy, such as a knife from a block in the kitchen, which we all seem to have these days. As he said, his mother only had one small knife on display, which she used for everything, with the carver for the Sunday joint safe in a drawer. My mother was the same.

It’s just too easy to get hold of a lethal weapon.

Obviously, this wouldn’t have been a factor in the Woolwich killing, but it is too easy to get hold of dangerous weapons as so many cases show.

May 24, 2013 Posted by | News | | Leave a comment