On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:17:41 -0500, fflyer wrote:
>"Viviane" wrote:
>
>>"Tchiowa" wrote in message
>>news:1168914553.937026.59430@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>> alexrinse@mailandnews.com wrote:
>>>> aeroporto bizarro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > What is up with that golf course right between the two runways at Don
>>>> > Muang airport in Bangkok? Did they build the golf course like that on
>>>> > purpose, or was the golf course there first and they built an airport
>>>> > around it?
>>>> >
>>>> > It's very funny watching the big jets taxiing through the middle of
>>>> > it. Well, it was, since now there's a new airport. But there's talk
>>>> > of opening Don Muang again just for domestic flights on Thai and the
>>>> > low cost airlines.
>>>>
>>>> The way I've been playing of late, it's just as well there are no
>>>> flights coming in.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Alex...
>>>
>>> You're not the reason they moved to Suvarnabhumi are you?
>>>
>>
>>Maybe it was the Qantas flight that overshot the runway and ended up on the
>>golf course a few years ago!
>
>Which taught us one of the greatest lessons in aviation history: if
>your plane comes equipped with thrust reversers, use them!
>
>The question is, have the folks at Qantas learned that lesson?
In fact the Qantas 747 didn't overshoot the runway at all, it skidded
off the edge of the runway just after it touched down.
Chris |