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airplane computer calls pilots retards

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-18 18:05

"Two seconds prior to touchdown, an aural warning, 'retard, retard,' was issued by the flight's computer system, advising the pilots to 'retard' the thrust lever to the recommended idle or reverse thrust lever position."

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-18 18:07

>>1
What the hell!

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-18 19:48

>>1
It really means to slow down...

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-18 20:37

Anonymous strikes again! Take THAT 1%ers!!!!!

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-19 2:20

To elaborate, there was a terrible air crash in Brazil in 2007.  First, understand that one of the ways that pilots can slow down the plane upon landing is to set the thrust of the engines to reverse.  Now, one of the engines had a bad reverse thruster, and so the pilot would only have the use of one of the two engines' reverse thrust.  Inexplicably, the pilot put one of the engines to reverse thrust mode, AND LEFT THE OTHER ENGINE IN CLIMB MODE with full forward thrust, as if somehow a faulty reverse thrust component meant in his mind that he didn't have to put the other engine down to idle.  He left the fuckin' thing in full forward!  Naturally, the plane veered sideways off the runway, because one side of it was in forward, and the other in reverse.

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-19 2:23

>>5
Stupid Brazilian pilot!

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-19 2:26

Wiki has articles on all the crashes, it seems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAM_Airlines_Flight_3054

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-19 5:37

>>7
Wikipedia, you mean, Wikipedia!

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-19 6:07

>>8
That's my pet name for it.

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-19 6:16

>>9
Wikipedia is not your pet! Unless you're Jimbo Wales, in which case, go fuck yourself, you fucking panhandler!

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-19 22:36

>>11-san calls dubs haters retards

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-19 23:15

Dubs? Nothing wrong with them as long as you get the right voice actors in. Nothing worse than when you end up with an abomination like the dub work in Shenmue II.

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